By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra and the largest ruling party have been formally accused of illicitly perpetrating “erosive” acts which could possibly lead to a court-dissolution of the party or otherwise prompt an undermining of democratic rule.
A fresh lawsuit against the billionaire power player and his camp was today (Oct. 10) directly submitted to the Constitutional Court by a lone lawyer, namely Thirayut Suwankesorn, petitioning the court to terminate the “erosive” acts on the part of the Pheu Thai as core of the current coalition government and the billionaire power player who had allegedly managed to dominate, command and steer the ruling party under leadership of his daughter/Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra.
Thirayut accused Thaksin of having practically kept himself above the law, flouting the monarch’s pardon which had curtailed his eight-year jail sentence to only one year on account of perpetrating power abuse and misconduct during his previous premiership prior to his having fled the country in self-exile abroad.
The lawyer charged that the de facto Pheu Thai boss had illicitly manipulated to have the Corrections Department, the Police Hospital and other authorities compromise the royal pardon at the expense of the monarch’s highly-placed honour and prestige by literally sparing him a single day behind bars in a Bangkok prison to otherwise serve his one-year jail term and instead granting him the undue privileges of staying for a six-month period at Police Hospital until he was released on parole earlier this year.
The lawyer cited an official report of the National Human Rights Commission which determined the contentious privileges granted to the de facto Pheu Thai boss at Police Hospital as a double-standard practice inaccessible to other convicts.
Thirayut charged that the de facto Pheu Thai boss would probably order the Pheu Thai-led government to finally succumb to unjustified demands of Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet, son of former Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen, for partial ownership of Koot Island maritime territory off Trat in the Gulf of Thailand where undersea natural gas and other natural resources have reportedly remained untapped. Hun Sen was the first guest who visited Thaksin at his Chan Song Lah residence shortly after he had been released on parole from the hospital where he had allegedly staged a fake-out as a patient of “critical illnesses.”
Thirayut accused that the de facto Pheu Thai boss had manipulated to dominate and direct and put the whole Pheu Thai under his command, albeit in clandestine, behind-the-scenes fashion, to the extent that the ruling party virtually served as his tool for power.
Such power play on the part of the billionaire Thaksin was legally tantamount to an “erosive” act which could possibly lead to the country’s rule being completely undermined, according to the lawyer.
The petitioner charged that the de facto Pheu Thai boss had illegally hosted a meeting of leaders of all coalition partners at his house hours after former prime minister Srettha Thavisin had been immediately deprived of power by the Constitutional Court due to a severe breach of political ethics, thus evidently signifying his illicit role as power player. Last August’s contentious event orchestrated by the de facto Pheu Thai boss culminated in an unrivalled naming of his daughter as the country’s 31st prime minister.
Thaksin had allegedly given a hush-hush order to the Pheu Thai as core of the current coalition to expel the Palang Pracharath, led by former deputy prime minister Prawit Wongsuwan, out of the coalition government, according to the lawyer.
Given a precedent Constitutional Court ruling which immediately dissolved the Move Forward and prohibited all members of the party’s executive board from assuming any political positions for a 10-year period, the Pheu Thai could possibly follow suit on grounds of perpetrating such “erosive” acts. Consequently, Paetongtarn could possibly be deprived of her prime-ministerial status as had been the case of Srettha.
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Top and Front Page: Lawyer Thirayut Suwankesorn submitting his petition to the Constitutional Court today, Oct. 10, 2024. Photos: Naewna
Insert: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra and the party’s logo at right. Photo: Thai Rath
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