By Thai Newsroom Reporters
AN AD HOC COMMITTEE will likely be set up by the Election Commission to look into allegations that de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra had illicitly dominated and steered the largest ruling party, albeit in behind-the-scenes fashion, as well as unlawfully exerted influence on other current coalition partners.
Election Commission Secretary-General Sawaeng Boonmee will likely set up the ad hoc panel which will be initially given a 30-day time to investigate and find out the truth behind Thaksin’s alleged power play in the face of varied petitions earlier filed against the billionaire power player on charges of having unduly dominated and directed the Pheu Thai despite his being legally considered an “outsider” as well as illicitly influenced several leading figures of the Bhumjaithai, Palang Pracharath, Ruam Thai Sang Chart, Chart Thai Pattana and Prachachart.
In last August’s rare political phenomenon, Thaksin hosted an urgent, hush-hush meeting of those partisan leaders at his Chan Song Lah house hours after former prime minister Srettha Thavisin had been immediately deposed of power under a split decision of the Constitutional Court on grounds of severely breaching political ethics though the de facto Pheu Thai boss was not legally allowed to tamper with any parties’ businesses due to his having been earlier convicted guilty of power abuse charges and sentenced to jail by court, albeit without literally being put behind bars for a single day.
Those petitions have been earlier lodged to the polling agency in pursuit of dissolution of the Pheu Thai and all the other coalition partners whose leading figures had attended the hush-hush meeting at Thaksin’s house to pick a new head of government in place of the court-deposed real estate tycoon-turned-prime minister.
The Pheu Thai boss had earlier given press conferences in relation to the allocation of cabinet portfolios among current coalition partners and had publicly manifested his visions supposedly pertaining to the running of the country which had been allegedly adopted as part of the policies of the Pheu Thai-led coalition government under leadership of his daughter/Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra.
Literally from a private ward at Police Hospital, the de facto Pheu Thai boss who had allegedly staged a fake-out as a patient of “critical illnesses” had allegedly manipulated to direct the allocation of the cabinet portfolios among the coalition partners and naming of Pheu Thai members as ministers.
If the Constitutional Court finally ruled the de facto Pheu Thai boss and others guilty as charged, Thaksin would be convicted and sentenced to a jail term whilst his daughter prime minister would be immediately deprived of power, not only as head of government but leader of the largest ruling party alongside other members of their executive board.
Other members of cabinet attached to the Pheu Thai and all other coalition partners would be immediately deposed of ministerial seats, stripped of their executive partisan positions and prohibited from assuming political positions at any levels for a number of years in consequence of the possible dissolution of their parties.
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