Move Forward party unlikely to be dissolved by charter court – law professor

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A law professor at Thammasat University says the Constitutional Court has three options for its ruling next Wednesday, in a case in which the Move Forward party is accused of intending to overthrow Thailand’s Constitutional Monarchy with its election pledge to abrogate Section 112 of the Criminal Code, more commonly known as the lèse majesté law.

 

Assistant Professor Prinya Thaewanarumitkul, director of the university’s Law Centre, said that this case is, however, potentially more serious for the Move Forward party than the iTV share ownership case against its former leader Pita Limjaroenrat, on which the Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday clearing him of the charge.

 

He played down speculation that the party will be dissolved, because the petitioner only asked the court to order the party to cease attempts to abrogate or weaken the lèse majesté law, not to dissolve the party.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-01-26

 

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[flyingtlger]

Pita Limjaroenrat for PM.

Thailand needs the young blood in the archaic political system....

[Pique Dard]

anyone who has visited thailand or read its constitution knows that it is suicidal to broach certain subjects, but change  is gonna come(Sam Cooke)

[worgeordie]

They will be lucky ,they will find or dig up something else ,the establishment 

will never let them be in power , even though that's what majority of people

want.

 

regards Worgeordie

[n00dle]

2 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

 

Thailand needs the young blood in the archaic political system....

 

It's not just Thailand, US presidential options would not appear out of place roaming Jurassic Park

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

Pita Limjaroenrat for PM.

Thailand needs the young blood in the archaic political system....

What Thailand needs and what it gets as we have plainly seen are about as far apart as the combined elite families worth and the migrant workers salary.

[bamnutsak]

From the linked article...

 

He played down speculation that the party will be dissolved, because the petitioner only asked the court to order the party to cease attempts to abrogate or weaken the lèse majesté law, not to dissolve the party.

 

 

 

Who is the "petitioner", and why are they allowed to stipulate the extent of the charges or punishment? And why can the Court restrict what citizens can discuss?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 26 by bamnutsak

[Purdey]

Honestly, the party said it wants to make adjustments to the law not abrogate it. Moreover, it hasn't happened yet so how to jail someone, or dissolve a party, for what has not happened yet?

[NanLaew]

1 hour ago, bamnutsak said:

From the linked article...

 

He played down speculation that the party will be dissolved, because the petitioner only asked the court to order the party to cease attempts to abrogate or weaken the lèse majesté law, not to dissolve the party.

 

 

 

Who is the "petitioner", and why are they allowed to stipulate the extent of the charges or punishment? And why can the Court restrict what citizens can discuss?

 

 

 

Pro-establishment lawyer Theerayuth Suwankaesorn filed the case against Move Forward, accusing the party of seeking to overthrow Thailand’s constitutional monarchy.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-25/thai-court-to-rule-on-charter-breach-case-against-move-forward

 

As for what Thailand's courts, especially the Constitutional Court, can and cannot do, how much time do you have?

[zzaa09]

4 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

Pro-establishment lawyer Theerayuth Suwankaesorn filed the case against Move Forward, accusing the party of seeking to overthrow Thailand’s constitutional monarchy.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-25/thai-court-to-rule-on-charter-breach-case-against-move-forward

 

As for what Thailand's courts, especially the Constitutional Court, can and cannot do, how much time do you have?

We can always speculate or analysis as to how it should be or what it could be....but as long as tradition has a solid foothold on the social/political order workings, can't see much change in the near or distant future. Oligarchy and plutocracy are the most commonplace practiced the world over [guised in variable and comparable forms].