By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE RUAM THAI SANG CHART, the currently second largest coalition partner of the Pheu Thai-led government, has been thrown into a pivotal legal battle with a fresh petition filed today (June 25) in pursuit of dissolution of the ultra-conservative party and a political ban to all the party’s executive board members on charges of being illicitly influenced by Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra.
Political activist Sonthiya Sawasdee today lodged the petition to the Election Commission with hopes of eventually seeing the polling agency forward it over to the Constitutional Court to consider dissolving the Ruam Thai Sang Chart and prohibiting all the party’s executive board members including Ruam Thai Sang Chart leader/Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Energy Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga and Ruam Thai Sang Chart secretary-general/Industry Minister Eknath Prompan from engaging in political activity at all levels for a number of years.
According to the petitioner, Pirapan had practically disrespected the Ruam Thai Sang Chart resolution earlier adopted by the party’s executive board to the extent that he demand for an immediate resignation of Thaksin’s daughter as head of government in the face of her disreputable, error-riddled handling of Thai-Cambodian border conflict.
On the other hand, Sonthiya charged, Pirapan had not only failed to raise his party’s demand for Paetongtarn to step down but offered himself to be illegally coerced by Thaksin into taking a twist in power play, betraying his party’s resolution and choosing to continually endorse his daughter as head of government and to stay with the Pheu Thai-led coalition in return for a few more ministerial seats.
The petitioner quoted deputy Ruam Thai Sang Chart leaders Juti Krairirk and Wittaya Kaeoparadai as confirming that the Ruam Thai Sang Chart had resolutely called for Paetongtarn to step down or else the ultra-conservative camp, previously influenced by de facto party boss/former coup leader-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, would have withdrawn from the Pheu Thai-led government.
Sonthiya commented that such contentious acts on the part of the Ruam Thai Sang Chart leader have evidently breached the constitution’s organic law on political parties, thus prompting him to seek dissolution of Pirapan’s party and prohibition to all the party’s executive board members from any political activity at the order of the Constitutional Court.
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Top and Front Page: Political activist Sonthiya Sawasdee. Photos: Thai Rath
Insert: Ruam Thai Sang Chart leader/Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Energy Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga. Photo: Thai Rath
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