Double blow for Thailand’s Pita as legal cases mount

Thai prime ministerial hopeful Pita Limjaroenrat said the recommendation that he be disqualified was unfair.

The Constitutional Court said it had accepted a complaint filed by a lawyer against Pita and his election-winning Move Forward Party’s that said its plan to reform a law prohibiting royal insults amounted to an attempt “to overthrow the democratic regime of government with the king as a head of state”.

To gather enough support in parliament to become prime minister it looks as if Pita must win over conservative members of a Senate opposed to his party’s anti-establishment agenda, its most contentious element being amending article 112 of the criminal code, which punishes insults of the crown by up to 15 years in jail.

Move Forward beat the populist Pheu Thai party, that had been expected to win, by 10 seats and the two parties together hope to form a coalition government after Thursday’s vote.The court cases are the latest twist in a turbulent, two-decade battle for power in Thailand that broadly pits conservatives allied with the royalist military and influential old money families against parties elected on populist or progressive platforms.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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