By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE SENATORIAL FRAUD issue has today (May 26) intensified with the Constitutional Court being formally asked to immediately suspend nearly half the total senators, allegedly associated with the Bhumjaithai, from performing their legislative duties due to their attempted interference in the affairs of the executive branch.
A group of persons, officially put in reserve for future senators, has petitioned the Constitutional Court to consider giving an order for 92 out of a total 200 senators to immediately stop doing their legislative duties, pending sought-after investigation into a recent phenomenon in which those senior lawmakers had earlier petitioned the Constitutional Court to keep a few cabinet members from performing in relation to the ongoing, in-depth probe by the Department of Special Investigation into the vote-rigging, bloc-voting, money-laundering scandals over last year’s senatorial elections which had allegedly involved the Bhumjaithai, the second largest coalition partner, under de facto party boss Newin Chidchob.
In the meantime, the petitioners, led by former assistant police chief Kamrop Panyakaeo, formally called on the National Anti-Corruption Commission to promptly investigate the alleged, “severe” violation of law by those Bhumjaithai-associated senators who have been apparently standing in the way of the DSI investigation into the alleged money-laundering and criminal conspiracies pertaining to the notorious, complicated senatorial elections.
The 92 senators, known to be surreptitiously steered and domineered by the Bhumjaithai, had formally called on the Constitution Court to keep Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai and Justice Minister Thavi Sodsong from performing in regard to DSI missions involving the alleged senatorial rigging conspiracies was evidently tantamount to an unlawful interference of the legislative branch into the affairs of the executive branch, thus compromising division of powers under democratic rule.
The Pheu Thai deputy prime minister-cum-defence minister is largely viewed as a right-hand man for Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s father/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra whilst the justice minister who concurrently acts as leader of the Prachachart is quietly supportive to the mega-billionaire, power player who has apparently developed conflict of interest with Newin’s camp.
Those Bhumjaithai-associated senators are among 100-plus senior lawmakers whom the DSI, a government agency under care of the Ministry of Justice, has already suspected of involvement in the unprecedented electoral fraud and money-laundering plots, prompting the Election Commission to have issued subpoenas for their questioning on such scandals.
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Top and Front Page: Some of the people placed in reserve for future senators handing over their complaint to the National Anti-Corruption Commission this morning, May 26, 2025. Photos: Naewna
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