Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat has questioned whether he had been a victim of political persecution by the Election Commission (EC).
He wrote in his Facebook post today that he would like to know whether the investigative committee had concluded its findings before the EC asked the Constitutional Court to suspend him from performing duty as an MP, even though the EC claims that the investigation process and its petition to the Charter Court are separate issues.
Pita referred to previous media shareholding cases, involving about 60 MPs, saying that the Constitutional Court had not ordered any of them to be suspended from performing their duties but, in this case, he was ordered so to do.
“I would like to ask society to judge whether such an order is fair or not?” said Pita at the end of his post.
He was responding to a report that the EC investigating committee has…
