Move Forward Party’s reincarnation challenged

Key figures of the People's Party pose for pictures after they announced the relocation of Move Forward Party MPs to the new party last week. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul)
After moving Move Forward Party MPs to the fresh group last week, important members of the Women’s Party posed for photos. ( Photo: Apichart Jinakul )

The Thai Pakdee Party’s royalist leader has resisted a probe into the status of the People’s Party, which MPs from the disbanded&nbsp Move Forward Party ( MFP ) have just moved, arguing that the party’s destination party has enough qualified branches.

Dr. Warong Dechgitvigrom, the leader of the Thai Pakdee Party, stated on his Facebook page on Sunday that he would request that the Election Commission (EC ) look into whether the People’s Party should be expelled for having too few branches.

He claimed that the Women’s Party was the renamed edition of the former Thinkakhaochaovilai Party, but he doubted whether it had much trees global to maintain its political party status.

According to Dr. Warong, a political party would be automatically disqualified if it did n’t have at least one branch per region for a year under the law.

He claimed to have learned from the EC webpage that the 2012 Thinkakhaochaovilai Party had two branches in the North and one in the Central Plains. There were no branches in the South and Northeast.

” For transparency, the EC must examine it and remind people of the details of its branches on a quarterly basis”, Dr Warong said.

The Thinkakhaochaovilai Party’s reputation is “permitted by the rules” if it has n’t had branches in four areas in a year. This means that the Women’s Party cannot use the barred celebration”, he said.

He claimed that his party had appeal the EC to address the problem.

MFP MPs switched to the Women’s Party to keep their MP position shortly after the Constitutional Court disbanded the Move Forward Party, which won the election next week.

In less than two weeks and nearly 40, 000 people registered to get members, The Women’s Party announced on its Facebook page on Sunday that it had received donations totaling more than 20 million baht in total.

After the upcoming general election, the main opposition party announced that it would form a one-party authorities.

Thai Pakdee Party chief Dr Warong Dechgitvigrom

Thai Pakdee Party chief Dr Warong Dechgitvigrom