Jaran explained that the charter court cannot review the ombudsmen’s petition for several reasons.
Firstly, parliamentarians are not state officials as referred to in Article 47. The article gives the ombudsmen the right to seek rulings from the Constitutional Court in cases they believe state officials have violated peoples’ rights and liberties.
Jaran said judges, MPs and senators are not state officials in the Thai legal system. Instead, judges and parliamentarians are considered executors of the judicial and legislative branches of sovereign power. As a result, Jaran said, the Constitutional Court cannot interfere in parliamentary affairs.
The ombudsmen also invoked Article 48 to seek a court ruling to settle the conflict over parliamentary meeting regulations and the charter.
However, Jaran said, legal disputes that the Constitutional Court can accept for review must be…
