Convicted Nawat has to quit as MP, Wissanu says

[snoop1130]

Convicted Nawat has to quit as MP, Wissanu says

By The Nation

 

 

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said on Thursday that Nawat Tocharoensuk’s murder conviction this week clearly disqualified him from serving as a member of Parliament.

 

Nawat, a Pheu Thai Party MP for Khon Kaen, was sentenced to death on Tuesday for his role in the 2013 murder of Suchart Kotthum, chief administrator of the Khon Kaen Provincial Administrative Organisation. Nawat is in detention pending appeal, declined bail because the severity of the sentence makes him a possible flight risk.

 

Wissanu’s comment to reporters at Government House came after Chuan Leekpai, speaker of the House of Representatives, said the Election Commission would have to ask the Constitutional Court to consider Nawat’s MP status.

 

“It is normal that, when there is a dispute, someone must make a final decision,” Wissanu said while offering his personal view that Nawat must relinquish his MP’s post according to Section 98 of the Constitution.

 

It states that MPs ordered detained by the court must relinquish their office, regardless of the charge or whether their case has been finalised.

 

The Constitutional Court’s decision would simply confirm the standard, after which a by-election would be organised to replace Nawat, Wissanu said.

 

Suchart was shot dead in front of his home in Muang Khon Kaen on May 3, 2013. Five suspects were subsequently charged with colluding in a premeditated murder and violating the Firearms Act.

 

The primary court in October 2014 sentenced Pol Lt Col Somjit Kaewphrom to life in prison and Prapan Sripilai more than 37 years. Pol Sen Sgt Maj Weerasak Chamnanpol, Boonchuay Jungklang and Piyapong Meekambang were acquitted for lack of evidence.

 

The Appeals Court in 2016 imposed the death sentence on Somjit, ordered Prapan jailed for life, and overturned the three acquittals in favour of life sentences. All five men are appealing to the Supreme Court.

 

The Khon Kaen Court issued a warrant on April 3, 2018, for Nawat’s arrest for hiring others to commit murder, which led to his death sentence this week.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30376783

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2019-09-26

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[HeyHeyHey]

Is this just a small issue as well?

Edited September 26, 2019 by HeyHeyHey

[rkidlad]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Convicted Nawat has to quit as MP, Wissanu says

Careful, Wissanu, you don’t want to set any precedents that might come back to bite you later with any future revelations about ministers on your team. 
 

What a shower of s*** Thailand has representing them. 

[ThePioneer]

Last MP disqualified for criminal conviction, please switch off the lights.

[z42]

Does Thailand actually deserve better leadership than this? 

General apathy mixed in with people actually voting for this sadistic <deleted> over other candidates is actually staggering.

 

With such serious charges hanging over him at election time, why was he even allowed to contest? Scandalous ????

[Mango Bob]

When did Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam become a member of the Election Commission.  Why isn't he minding his own damn business.  He has nothing to do with this.  Why not shut the hell up.

[ChrisY1]

The country is a fuster cluck of a mess when a convicted person, sentenced to death, could possibly be executed whilst continuing to be a serving MP.

What weird ways this place moves in.

[RichardColeman]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said on Thursday that Nawat Tocharoensuk’s murder conviction this week clearly disqualified him from serving as a member of Parliament.

Anyone else see 300 odd new charges of murder coming soon for undesirable opposition mp's ? 

[DPKANKAN]

3 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

The country is a fuster cluck of a mess when a convicted person, sentenced to death, could possibly be executed whilst continuing to be a serving MP.

What weird ways this place moves in.

Or a convicted drug dealer!!????????????????

[Gee Ku]

5 hours ago, Mango Bob said:

When did Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam become a member of the Election Commission.  Why isn't he minding his own damn business.  He has nothing to do with this.  Why not shut the hell up.

When one sees a wrong one speaks up no matter what situation, circumstance or position one is in. If people don't point out heinious wrongs whether it's their business or not, the pepertrators would be strutting about with impunity. Minding your own business is selfish. Minding other people's business by pointing out criminality is in society's interest.

[thaiguzzi]

1 hour ago, DPKANKAN said:

Or a convicted drug dealer!!????????????????

Heroin importer.

There, fixed it for ya.

4 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

The country is a fuster cluck of a mess when a convicted person, sentenced to death, could possibly be executed whilst continuing to be a serving MP.

What weird ways this place moves in.

Yabbut, great fun, innit?

[gamini]

12 hours ago, z42 said:

Does Thailand actually deserve better leadership than this? 

General apathy mixed in with people actually voting for this sadistic <deleted> over other candidates is actually staggering.

 

With such serious charges hanging over him at election time, why was he even allowed to contest? Scandalous ????

The PTP has 50 leading politicians facing criminal charges or getting out of them by fleeing the country and then using the statute of limitations to get them squashed. There are no better than the present government.

[Artisi]

13 hours ago, z42 said:

Does Thailand actually deserve better leadership than this? 

General apathy mixed in with people actually voting for this sadistic <deleted> over other candidates is actually staggering.

 

With such serious charges hanging over him at election time, why was he even allowed to contest? Scandalous ????

Why - - - - mates, and mates don't ask difficult questions. 

[Fex Bluse]

Murderers, heroin dealers, and other assorted "good" people. 

 

Fuedal Thailand ????????????

[Baerboxer]

6 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

The country is a fuster cluck of a mess when a convicted person, sentenced to death, could possibly be executed whilst continuing to be a serving MP.

What weird ways this place moves in.

 

Sounds weird I agree.

 

But in the UK an elected MP can be convicted and imprisoned but is still an MP. May be expelled by his/her party, but still an MP. Will face pressure from the entire House of Commons to resign but until that resignation, is still and MP.

 

A Labor MP and solicitor was recently imprisoned for trying to pervert the course of justice whilst evading a speeding ticket. The pressure was on her to resign but whist she didn't she couldn't be disqualified. Odd but there we are.