Constitutional Court to have final say: EC votes to disband Thai Raksa Chart

The Election Commission has voted unanimously to ask the Constitutional Court to consider disbanding the Thai Raksa Chart party. The decision leaves the pro-Thaksin Thai Raksa Chart in tatters with the national poll only six weeks away.

The EC statement says that the commission reached the resolution to recommend the party’s dissolution to the Constitutional Court last night after finding the party’s nomination of Princess Ubolratana as its sole prime ministerial candidate “detrimental to democratic rule with the King as the head of state”.

EC secretary-general Jarungvith Phumma handed over the EC’s resolution to the Constitutional Court and told the media that the commission arrived at the resolution last night.

Regarding the Thai Raksa Chart party’s defence evidence, he said that they would be sent to the EC chairman for consideration in the next meeting.

The party’s legal team submitted its evidence to defend its role in the controversial nomination of its prime ministerial candidate to the EC this morning which was already too late as the commission had already made its decision.

SOURCE: Thai PBS