Activist beefs up petition targeting Pheu Thai over handouts

He claims that Party broke the promise to implement a digital wallet plan.

Sonthiya Sawasdee, an advocate, has provided more evidence to support his complaint filed with the Constitutional Court against the Pheu Thai Party for allegedly abusing its 10,000-baht online budget plan.

He claimed that the ruling group had not yet put the plan into practice. He claimed that the current supply of a 10, 000-baht each to marginalized and underprivileged people did not correspond to the promised electric pocket program. &nbsp,

Pheu Thai had made the promise to implement a modern budget plan with pamphlets during its vote strategy last year. First, the government planned to give 10, 000 ringgit each to 50 million people over 16 years of age&nbsp, through a digital wealth program.

However, the program only saw a flyer disbursed from Sept 25 to 30, in which 14.5 million express happiness users and disabled people each received 10, 000 ringgit, with payment made via PromptPay. &nbsp,

One of the extra paperwork Mr. Sonthiya submitted on Monday was to find out if he has the right to file a complaint with the Constitutional Court.

The watchdog was supposed to have forwarded the complaint to the judge after the activist. However, he was unable to file the petition with the watchdog within the timeframe due to a delay in gathering video evidence. He was forced to immediately appeal the Constitutional Court as a result.

It is clear Pheu Thai has been unable to fulfill its election promise, according to Mr. Sonthiya, who stated it was clear. &nbsp,

The celebration was attempting to emulate the handout program put forth by the Prayut Chan-o-cha management to support people economically during the Covid-19 pandemic. &nbsp,

However, the activist claimed that Pheu Thai may have done what it promised to do in order to stimulate the economy rather than provide for welfare needs as the new handout allegedly intended to do. &nbsp,

He claimed that Pheu Thai broke the vote promise and broke the law. &nbsp,

Up to 40 million individuals aged 16 to 45 who were intended to be consumers of the electric pocket plan had missed out on the gift. ” This is comparable to deceit”, he said. &nbsp,

An earlier complaint that Pheu Thai had broken the law by not moving forward with the digital wallet scheme had been dropped by the Election Commission (EC ). &nbsp,

Mr. Sonthiya warned that the EC would be in the court of appeal if the Constitutional Court rendered a decision in favor of his plea against Pheu Thai. &nbsp,

Meanwhile, 80 % of consumers of the new money flyer said they had spent all of the income, according to the Centre for Economic and Business Forecasting.