PUBLISHED: 22 Nov 2024 at 11: 50
UPDATED: 22 Nov 2024 at 13: 12
A petition requesting a ban on billionaire former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra from colluding with the ruling Pheu Thai Party to destroy the democratic king was rejected by the Constitutional Court on Friday.
All nine judges agreed that the petition, filed by attorney Teerayut Suwankesorn, did not meet the judge’s conditions and parameters. Thaksin allegedly sought to sabotage the Pheu Thai king and exert control.
Additionally, the jury voted 7-2 in favor of Thaksin’s claim that his plan to use gas and other resources in the conflicting maritime area was benefiting Cambodia.
Since returning from 15 times of self-imposed banishment in 2023, Thaksin, the father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, has consistently denied having any influence on Pheu Thai.
This rejection follows the Office of the Attorney General’s ( OAG ) dismissal of Mr Teerayut’s petition, which was based on Section 49 of the charter. Anyone who is knowledgeable of such acts may appeal the lawyer common for a movement to the Constitutional Court under this section, which states that no person can exercise their rights or freedoms to destroy a democratic regime while the King is the Head of State.
Since serving a royally-commuted prison term, Thaksin, 75, has been campaigning for Pheu Thai in regional elections while making policy ideas to the state to resurrect the government’s ailing economy.
Under Thai laws, a non-party member’s existence qualifies as a breakdown.  ,
Earlier this year, the mandate judge ordered the dissolution of Thailand’s largest opposition group, Move Forward, for its election plan to alter Section 112 of the Criminal Code, also known as the der guess rules. The group won the party’s general election next year, but pro-royalist and military-backed organizations that later allied with Pheu Thai prevented them from form a government.