By Thai Newsroom Reporters
CHANCES OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT dissolving the Pheu Thai, the largest ruling party covertly steered by the billionaire power player Thaksin Shinawatra, are ultimately slim and unlikely in foreseeable future, according to a noted academic.
Chiang Mai University’s Humanities Faculty’s historian Attachak Satayanuruk predicted that the Constitutional Court will likely spare the Pheu Thai the dissolution on grounds of Thaksin’s unlawful predominance and clandestine influence over the core coalition party after he had allegedly manipulated to have his 38-year-old daughter/Pheu Thai leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra named prime minister.
Given the sustained circumstances under which the unnamed powers-that-be will choose to stand behind the Constitutional Court’s rulings on significant, politically-related lawsuits, Thaksin’s party will likely survive any cases filed in pursuit of a dissolution as long as he and his men could be readily instrumental in maintaining and promoting their vested interests and hidden purposes, either in the realm of the legislative or executive branch, Attachak commented.
The Chiang Mai historian made his comments in the wake of a few lawsuits recently filed to the Constitutional Court via the Election Commission not only calling for dissolution of the Pheu Thai and a subsequent prohibition of the party leader and all other members of the party’s executive board but for an immediate impeachment and ouster of the woman prime minister on charges of perpetrating a severe violation of the wide-ranging code of political ethics and being unlawfully masterminded and steered by her father who cannot be legally registered as partisan member due to his having been indicted by court on power abuse and misconduct cases and sentenced to jail, albeit without literally being put behind bars for a single day.
Attachak charged that Thailand’s political parties and democratic rule have been deliberately eroded and disintegrated by the powers-that-be, who, he said, have quietly stood behind the nine-judge court.
Featuring in the alleged erosion and disintegration of the political parties and democratic rule were the highly contentious dissolution of reformist camps, namely the Future Forward and Move Forward, and the jaw-dropping phenomenon in which the Pheu Thai joined ranks in government with the Palang Pracharath, the Ruam Thai Sang Chart and the Democrats, all having been Thaksin’s previous archenemies.
Though the Constitutional Court has apparently set a precedent in an historic impeachment lawsuit filed against former prime minister Srettha Thavisin on contentious grounds of a severe breach to the code of political ethics which already deposed him of power, his successor will likely be spared such harsh legal penalties, Attachak forecast.
Attachak said the powers-that-be would undoubtedly prefer to have the de facto Pheu Thai boss foster and maintain cordial relationship with all conservative coalition partners including the Bhumjaithai steered by de facto party boss Newin Chidchob, the Ruam Thai Sang Chart under de facto party boss/former coup leader-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and the Democrats and manage to solve their mutual conflict of interest otherwise, the academic said, he might probably be in “a great deal of trouble” and no longer survive the complicated power play.
In the meantime, Paetongtarn’s Pheu Thai-led government will likely have difficulties running the country in competent and fruitful fashion with respect to the country’s and people’s interests as far as the billionaire power player and his adversaries are concerned, according to the Chiang Mai historian.
He forecast that the woman prime minister could probably not stand exponentially mounted pressure longer than one year and a half from now and opt out by dissolving the House of Representatives to call a general election.
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Top: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra with his daughter/Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Photo: Thai Rath
Insert: Academic Attachak Satayanuruk. Photo: Matichon Weekly
Front Page: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Photo: Thai Rath
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