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…
