webfact Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 by TNR Staff AMID a move to disqualify Move Forward leader and prime minister candidate Pita Limjaroenrat for holding 42,000 iTV Plc shares, a Thai Public Broadcasting Service (TPBS) executive said today (May 10) this company was closed in 2007, Sanook.com said. Mr. Anuphong Chaiyarit, TPBS’s deputy director, added that iTV’s subsidiary which rented equipment to produce films had also shut down. However iTV still retains the status of a juristic person because it is embroiled in a lawsuit with the Office of the Permanent Secretary, the Prime Minister’s Office (OPM – PM’s Office). Full story: https://thainewsroom.com/2023/05/10/tpbs-confirms-itv-plc-subsidiary-have-shut-down/ -- © Copyright THAI NEWSROOM 2023-05-11 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. The most versatile and flexible rental investment and holiday home solution in Thailand - click for more information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfact Posted May 10, 2023 Author Share Posted May 10, 2023 Move Forward leader denies claims he held shares in media company barring him as a Bangkok by News Desk Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat campaigns in Bangkok this week as the party surges in the polls just days before the General Election on Sunday. He has been reported to the Election Commission by Palang Pracharat Party list candidate Ruangkrai Leekitwattana for holding media shares while serving as an MP from 2019 to 2023. Allegations against the Move Forward Party leader, if taken up by the Election Commission and forwarded to the Constitutional Court, could see him barred from politics. However, on Wednesday, key political analysts considered this unlikely. Move Forward Party leader, Pita Limjaroenrat, on Tuesday, stoutly defended claims that he held media shares in a company when serving as an MP in the last parliament, an allegation put forward on the same day by a Palang Pracharat Party candidate and which could see Thailand’s most popular politician barred from politics. Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat who, according to opinion polls, is the country’s most favoured politician to become Thailand’s next Prime Minister, came out on Tuesday to strongly deny that he held shares in a media company which would have precluded him from being an MP in parliament. Full story: https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2023/05/10/pita-move-forward-party-leader-in-trouble-over-media-shares/ -- © Copyright Thai Examiner 2023-05-11 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. The most versatile and flexible rental investment and holiday home solution in Thailand - click for more information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anchadian Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 Truly ludicrous if this results in the disqualification of a political party leader. How do shares in a company that closed down in 2007, and was delisted from the stock exchange in 2014, still matter in 2023? https://twitter.com/Reaproy/status/1656233606371590146 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanLaew Posted May 10, 2023 Share Posted May 10, 2023 11 minutes ago, anchadian said: Truly ludicrous if this results in the disqualification of a political party leader. How do shares in a company that closed down in 2007, and was delisted from the stock exchange in 2014, still matter in 2023? https://twitter.com/Reaproy/status/1656233606371590146 More ludicrous than the time when the Constitutional Court ran then Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej out of town on a rail because some people didn't like his participation on early morning television cookery shows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herfiehandbag Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Aha, so "the fix" emerges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebell Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 How to win an election - Thai-style; disqualify your opponents. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smutcakes Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 And we all know who owns In Touch Holdings...... none other than Gulf Energy, the military power company.... who also happen to have their man Chaiwat as the digital minister.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrunchWrapSupreme Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 They did the same to Thanathorn. Found he was co-owner of a small travel magazine stuffed into the back pockets of airline seats. Ownership was transferred to his mom before he went into politics. They still got him. Dig up any dirt you can. It's dirty. Wage a successful campaign by appealing to the people and the popular vote? Something like democracy? Nah. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzaa09 Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 54 minutes ago, CrunchWrapSupreme said: They did the same to Thanathorn. Found he was co-owner of a small travel magazine stuffed into the back pockets of airline seats. Ownership was transferred to his mom before he went into politics. They still got him. Dig up any dirt you can. It's dirty. Wage a successful campaign by appealing to the people and the popular vote? Something like democracy? Nah. Yep. Anything they can find. It's what they do. Losers are starting to grasp at straws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rbkk Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 Ka-ching! Another 1000 baht (2x500baht) delivered in crisp notes to our household this morning. So the lottery numbers are hoped to be #6 and now #7. It's a dirty business but somebody has to clean-up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenStark Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 7 hours ago, NanLaew said: More ludicrous than the time when the Constitutional Court ran then Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej out of town on a rail because some people didn't like his participation on early morning television cookery shows? Nope it was similar ludicrous, and we all know which party Samak was part of, and why it happened. What was your point again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 10 hours ago, webfact said: AMID a move to disqualify Move Forward leader and prime minister candidate Pita Limjaroenrat for holding 42,000 iTV Plc shares, a Thai Public Broadcasting Service (TPBS) executive said today (May 10) this company was closed in 2007, Sanook.com said. Ohh dear try another dirty trick, this one might fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotchilli Posted May 11, 2023 Share Posted May 11, 2023 6 hours ago, mikebell said: How to win an election - Thai-style; disqualify your opponents. Sounds like Hun Sen next door... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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