By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT today (July 10) rescheduled deliberation on an impeachment lawsuit against Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for later this month.
The Constitutional Court rescheduled it for July 24 to handle the impeachment case filed by 40 senators against the Pheu Thai-attached prime minister for allegedly severely breaching the constitution and code of political ethics by naming former lawyer Pichit Chuenban a minister attached to the Prime Minister’s Office.
Srettha who had already submitted an affidavit to the court to defend himself over the contentious naming of the notorious former lawyer who had previously worked for de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra has categorically denied the power abuse charges which may have otherwise prompted the court to suspend him from work or even deprive him of his prime-ministerial status.
The prime minister has been earlier barely spared the suspension by court from doing his prime-ministerial duties.
Though Pichit finally resigned as a portfolioless minister, those senators concluded that Srettha’s action was an irreversible fait accompli and that the prime minister could have been earlier aware of the former lawyer’s failed professional integrity and flawed ethics.
The contentious naming of Pichit had been allegedly quietly pushed by Thaksin who may merely have looked to return favours since the former lawyer had worked on his behalf over a Ratchada land grab case nearly a couple of decades earlier.
Pichit had been earlier sentenced to six months in jail for evidently perpetrating contempt of court and an attempted payoff with two million baht in cash literally contained in food bags clandestinely handed to officials of the Supreme Court in 2008.
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