File photo : Theerayut Suwankesorn
The lawyer who successfully petitioned the Constitutional Court to block Move Forward’s reform push recently has now gone one step further by seeking the core opposition party’s dissolution.
Theerayut Suwankesorn says he wants to “finish off what he started” after the court on January 31 ordered Move Forward to cease all attempts to abolish or amend Article 112 of the Criminal Code, also known as the lese majeste law, through “any illegitimate legal procedure”.
In a unanimous ruling by all nine judges, the court found that Move Forward’s campaigning on the issue threatened to undermine the Thai monarchy and was thus deemed an attempt to overthrow the country’s constitutional monarchy, as per Article 49 of the Constitution.
The clause in question, cited by Theerayut in his petition, empowers the Constitutional Court to take action…
