Charter court ruling to determine future of FFP

By The Nation

 

Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit

 

The Constitutional Court will on Friday (February 21) decide the fate of Future Forward Party (FWP), which has been accused of violating the Political Party Organic Law BE 2560 Section 72.

 

Section 92(3) allows the Constitutional Court to consider disbanding any political party that violates Section 72.

 

Section 72 prohibits political parties and their members from receiving a donation of money or assets from any source while knowing it is unlawful or having reasonable doubts of it being unlawful.

 

The termination of political parties can be ruled based on Section 91, Section 92 and the amalgamation of political parties.

 

The Office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission had earlier revealed that FWP leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit had total assets, include his spouse’s, valued at Bt5.632 billion, with Bt683,303 debt, Bt188 million income and Bt66 million expense.

 

Thannathorn gave his party loans totalling Bt191.2 million -- Bt161.2 in the first instalment and Bt30 in the second installment.

 

The Election Commission made a case for the dissolution of the party to the Constitutional Court. The court accepted the case on December 25, 2019.

 

The first step of the dissolution process begins with the registrar who needs to examine the related facts and announce the termination of the political party in the gazette if the case was presented to the registrar or the registrar sees any reason to disband the party.

 

If the party has members who are members of the House of Representatives, the registrar must file a petition to the Constitutional Court within 15 days of the case being presented to the registrar and the court will announce the dissolution in the gazette.

 

In the last 10 years, 36 parties have been dissolved in Thailand, including Thai Rak Thai Party in 2007 and Thai Raksa Chart Party in 2019.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30382477

 

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Considering it was a loan and not a donation it shouldn't be too difficult.

Hoping for justice for the Future Forward Party - but doubt it.

8 hours ago, webfact said:

 

Section 72 prohibits political parties and their members from receiving a donation of money or assets from any source while knowing it is unlawful or having reasonable doubts of it being unlawful.

          Good News ?   There's not going to be too many Politicians left then

“In the last 10 years, 36 parties have been dissolved in Thailand, including Thai Rak Thai Party in 2007 and Thai Raksa Chart Party in 2019”

 

That is a shockingly large number of dissolutions, I was unaware of this. I thought, this was the kind of thing that only happens in authoritarian regimes like Cambodia?

Edited February 20, 20206 yr by d2b2
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