Pita Limjaroenrat (C) attends a press convention on the Thai parliament in Bangkok on January 31 after Thailand’s Constitutional Court docket ordered Pita and the Transfer Ahead Social gathering to cease campaigning for Lese-Majeste reform instantly. //AFP
The Constitutional Court docket is unlikely to difficulty a ruling on the destiny of the opposition Transfer Ahead social gathering this month and has given the social gathering extra time to current further protection proof in opposition to an software for the dissolution of the social gathering, Constitutional Court docket president Nakharin Mektrairat mentioned at the moment.
The courtroom accepted for consideration the Election Fee’s petition and software, searching for to have the social gathering dissolved and the chief committee members banished from politics for ten years, on costs of making an attempt to overthrow the Constitutional Monarchy by calling for modification of lèse majesté regulation (Prison Code §112).
The courtroom gave the social gathering till April 17 to provide proof to the courtroom in its defence.
Nakharin mentioned, at the moment although, that the courtroom might lengthen the 15-day deadline, as requested by the Transfer Ahead social gathering, if its rationalization for the extension is affordable.
He additionally mentioned that it isn’t but clear but whether or not the social gathering will ask for an enquiry to be carried out earlier than there’s a ruling from the courtroom, including that the courtroom is open to rationalization from the social gathering relating to the necessity for an enquiry, throughout which witnesses may be summoned to testify in individual or in writing.
The Constitutional Court docket president denied that the judges have already reached a choice on the destiny of the social gathering, saying that, at this stage, dissolution of the social gathering is only a hypothesis.
