As anticipated, political petitioner Ruangkrai Leekitwattana lodged a petition with the Election Commission (EC) today, to seek the dissolution of the opposition Move Forward party. This follows the Constitutional Court’s decision yesterday that the party’s campaign to amend the lèse majesté law (Article 112 of the Criminal Code) constitutes an attempt to topple the constitutional monarchy.
Meanwhile, a similar petition was submitted to the EC by Thirayut Suwankhesorn, the lawyer who initiated the original petition to the Constitutional Court, which resulted to the ruling yesterday. In his petition, however, he only asked the court to stop the Move Forward party from undertaking activities related to amending the lèse majesté law.
Ruangkrai, a solo petitioner like Srisuwan Janya, claims that, based on the court’s ruling, the Move Forward party has violated Article 92 of…
