POLITICS
EC chief to decide on Bhum Jai Thai dissolution soon: Sodsri
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Election Commission (EC) chairman Apichart Sukhagganond will not take long to decide on whether to propose the dissolution of the Bhum Jai Thai Party once he receives a report on the issue from a subcommittee, commissioner Sodsri Satayathum said.

If the chairman, as the political party registrar, decides the party should be dissolved, he will propose the move to a meeting of the full commission, Sodsri said.

The five-member EC would then vote on the dissolution, she said, adding that if Apichart decides the party should not be dissolved, other commissioners had no right to object.

It is expected that the chairman will submit his decision to the EC by next week, she said.

The party has been accused by a former member of failing to submit some items of expenditure incurred in relation to the July 3, 2011 election. By law, if four out of five commissioners agree with the allegation, the party must be dissolved.

Party deputy secretarygeneral Supachai Jaisamut said Bhum Jai Thai had done nothing wrong and submitted all necessary documents to the relevant subcommittee.


-- The Nation 2013-08-27

They're hardly very relevant at this point. I'm sure a few BJT people are actually waiting for this dissolution to happen so they can quietly return into the fold of PT.

I'm not a fan of the party, but this dissolution of political parties for relatively minor offences must stop. If Samak had been left alone to bumble along the country may not be in the mess it's in.

It's a pity that his own party didn't support him, and put him back as PM again, choosing instead to elevate an unwilling PM-Somchai.

But that's politics, or a 'legal coup', as some might describe it ? Et Tu Brutus Thaksin Somchai ?

Meanwhile individual MPs, or small factional-groups, may leave or also re-join winning-alliances, so long as the leader or money are more important than the policies they proclaim.

It's enough to make a cynic cynical !

They're hardly very relevant at this point. I'm sure a few BJT people are actually waiting for this dissolution to happen so they can quietly return into the fold of PT.

Ahh, But they were very relavant some four - five years ago. Some of them tried to rejoin PT before the last election but were told that they are not wanted, apparently.The sitting member from the area that i live was one such person, But his rejection did not worry him very much because he said he was hansomly paid for his two years service.