Embattled Move Forward party leader Pita Limjaroenrat said today (Tuesday) he is confident he will be able to clear himself with the Election Commission (EC) over the iTV shareholding, as relates to his electoral candidacy, and is ready to fight any bad faith attempt to stop him from becoming Thailand’s next prime minister.

 

He said that the political party registrar’s bid to investigate whether he breached Article 151 of the MP election law, by standing in the May 14th general election in the full knowledge that he was not qualified to do so, is not unexpected, citing the case of his predecessor, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, former leader of the new defunct Future Forward, who was ordered by the Constitutional Court to stop functioning as an MP for holding shares in a media company.

 

Pita said that he was aware of the attempt to revive iTV as a media company before the emergence this week of the latest controversy on a TV news program, which uncovered a discrepancy between the written minutes of the iTV shareholder meeting on April 26th and a recording of a statement by the chair of the meeting.

 

He claimed that someone has supplied him with much more information about the controversy than was reported, adding that the party’s legal team is now handling the case.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/move-forward-leader-vows-to-fight-all-attempts-to-stop-him-becoming-prime-minister/

 

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Too wet behind the ears....

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

He claimed that someone has supplied him with much more information about the controversy than was reported, adding that the party’s legal team is now handling the case.

If you have the evidence take someone to court and blow this whole thing wide open.

Makes the Tory party look like choirboys here dunit but with a liberal splash of obvious ridiculousness ????

That´s the way to go. Keep up the good spirit. Will eat a kebab more for you today.

now is your chance, hit them back hard and don't stop until you get your seat, welcome to politics

4 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

Too wet behind the ears....

 

He has won.

Flogged them all again and again.

Imagine the hidings he’ll be handing out once he is no longer “wet behind the ears”. 

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

If you have the evidence take someone to court and blow this whole thing wide open.

Perhaps. That is if they can receive a fair and unbiased hearing.

Unfortunately, the cards are already stacked against 'em.

 

 

I smell a soft coup a-coming....

1 minute ago, zzaa09 said:

I smell a soft coup a-coming....

I smell something far worse! ????????

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

If you have the evidence take someone to court and blow this whole thing wide open.

Well if what's been reported is true, there is a huge issue with what was verbally stated and recorded in the share holder meeting and what was supplied as the transcript of the meeting.  That's only one hurdle that should be easy to overcome. It's the other crap behind the scenes that is troubling his path. 

Pita will most likely become PM . AFTER this , the Constitutional court will decide if he violated the law by posing his candidature as PM because of the shares .

Just now, nobodysfriend said:

Pita will most likely become PM

Competition for the trough is fierce, I hope he prevails but Pita is not out of the woods yet. Grubs abound!

23 minutes ago, cncltd1973 said:

now is your chance, hit them back hard and don't stop until you get your seat, welcome to politics

Better to wait and let the clowns get caught out lying again.

He sounds a lot like Trump.

12 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

Pita will most likely become PM . AFTER this , the Constitutional court will decide if he violated the law by posing his candidature as PM because of the shares .

But remember what and who the Constitutional Court is made up by....

Not guaranteed with this cabal. 

13 minutes ago, HuskerDo2 said:

He sounds a lot like Trump.

Not sure who you're referring to? 

33 minutes ago, HuskerDo2 said:

He sounds a lot like Trump.

This is not about Boris Johnson.

29 minutes ago, zzaa09 said:

But remember what and who the Constitutional Court is made up by....

Not guaranteed with this cabal. 

The establishment, so long able to act with impunity, is now answerable to an awakened, motivated and angry populace not only in the north but now in the capital as well.

 

A “let them eat cake” moment awaits them.

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

If you have the evidence take someone to court and blow this whole thing wide open.

What evidence should change something. He has the shares and it is a media company. Any dirty games in the back does not matter.

The only thing that can rescue him is that really the company is not active and so it is not a media company...but that is very weak.

22 minutes ago, Dan O said:

Not sure who you're referring to? 

Finding excuses where there are non.....

8 minutes ago, h90 said:

What evidence should change something. He has the shares and it is a media company. Any dirty games in the back does not matter.

The only thing that can rescue him is that really the company is not active and so it is not a media company...but that is very weak.

Didn't the chairman confirm at the meeting last month that the company is inactive whilst awaiting the results of litigation?

6 minutes ago, bannork said:

Didn't the chairman confirm at the meeting last month that the company is inactive whilst awaiting the results of litigation?

Careful, for some amongst us, facts have no value.

Is there a date all this mess has to be sorted out by? My wife told me by July......I wont hold my breath. How long can they put off forming a government? 

43 minutes ago, bannork said:

Didn't the chairman confirm at the meeting last month that the company is inactive whilst awaiting the results of litigation?

They are still reporting turnover and are legally active. Legally it is an active company that could anytime resume working. Depends on the courts if they follow the letter of the law or more the intention. If follow the intention of the law the iTV is a complete nothing.....If they follow the law exactly it is a media company.

I remember Samak.....The intention of the law wasn't to prevent a prime minister having a non political cooking show, still it killed him.

We used to have a bellicose saying in the old schoolyard.

 

"You, and whose Army?" 

 

This is the question Pita has to answer. 

 

He has the popular vote, but the Generals have always been close to the little dictator next door who sic'd the Tatmadaw onto its own people. 

 

If he doesn't get help from some very powerful friends, who have everything to lose by backing him, I can't see anything changing until everyone over fifty in the military is cactus. 

8 minutes ago, h90 said:

They are still reporting turnover and are legally active. Legally it is an active company that could anytime resume working. Depends on the courts if they follow the letter of the law or more the intention. If follow the intention of the law the iTV is a complete nothing.....If they follow the law exactly it is a media company.

I remember Samak.....The intention of the law wasn't to prevent a prime minister having a non political cooking show, still it killed him.

Desperate, desperate, desperate.

 

Out of curiosity, which do you believe is the greater crime (and should lead to parliamentary disqualification) inheriting 0.0035% of a defunct media company or being a convicted (in Australia) international drug dealer?

 

BTW - Samak was “convicted” of receiving payment for having a second job because of his one off appearance on a cooking show - there is no law about PM’s and cooking shows…., once again, you remember wrong.

2 hours ago, 2baht said:

I smell something far worse! ????????

sorry our new crop is so fire. 

33 minutes ago, chalawaan said:

We used to have a bellicose saying in the old schoolyard.

 

"You, and whose Army?" 

 

This is the question Pita has to answer. 

 

He has the popular vote, but the Generals have always been close to the little dictator next door who sic'd the Tatmadaw onto its own people. 

 

If he doesn't get help from some very powerful friends, who have everything to lose by backing him, I can't see anything changing until everyone over fifty in the military is cactus. 

An army of near on 30 million citizens who have well and truly had enough of military theft and incompetence.

 

Using live ammunition in its own citizens is no longer an option - the economy would instantly collapse, the difference being Myanmar was always an international pariah that wasn’t integrated into the global economy therefore, no downside for them, China’s teat is enough to fund the lifestyle of their Generals. Not so Thailand.

 

If the Japanese ceased investing in Thailand its all over as far as achieving first world economic status is concerned, not to mention the travel bans the rest of the world would implement on those responsible for gunning down citizens.

 

Pita will be PM, despite the desperate death throes of the archaic Thai establishment.

 

 

It's a Muppet show, Thai's should be ashamed, you voted for this constitution!! muppets