PUBLISHED: 14 Jun 2024 at 06: 17
The Election Commission (EC ) on Thursday defended its request to dissolve the opposition Move Forward Party ( MFP ) over its support for the revision of the Lese Majoreste Law by claiming that it had done so in accordance with the organic law governing political parties.
Pakorn Mahannop, a EC member, claimed that the commission’s decision was based on an organic law section 92, no Section 93, which allows the EC to obtain the MFP’s dissolution without conducting an investigation.
Mr. Pakorn made note of the differences between the two areas. According to Section 92 of the 2018 Political Parties Act, the EC must submit a request to the court after receiving reliable evidence that a group has violated a constitutional monarchy without having to conduct an investigation. Circumstances under Section 93 require the EC to build a spacecraft and let the accused to listen to the allegations, while Section 92 does not, he said.
After receiving a request from the Constitutional Court on Wednesday to provide additional information in the MFP’s breakdown case, the EC was forced to clarify the situation. The main opposition party had criticized the ballot agency, claiming that it forwarded the situation without any previous analysis.
According to Mr. Pakorn, Section 92 of the social group law was used to support the EC’s ask to dissolve the Thai Raksachart Party prior to the 2019 election. The Constitutional Court, according to him, accepted the complaint and ruled to break the TRC.
He added that the EC’s thoughts on whether a social group may be dissolved are unimportant at all. ” The EC ca n’t give an answer to such a question. It ca n’t agree or ca n’t disagree. It is required to follow the law and follow what is required. We follow and honor the Constitutional Court’s selection”.
When asked about Ittiporn Boonpracong’s comments that the EC did not follow the constitutional instructions in a video clip, Mr. Pakorn said the chairman’s comments should be taken into account with environment rather than just as a part of it.
When asked about the MFP’s say that Section 93 also applied to its case, Mr. Pakorn claimed that the EC determined that the matter fell under Section 92.
The EC’s request to dissolve the MFP came after the court’s decision on January 31 this year that the MFP’s continued efforts to amend Section 112 of the Criminal Code, the der qualifications law, indicated an purpose to destroy the constitutional king.