Plea over lotteries
Unemployed sellers of two- and three-digit lotteries are going to the Supreme Administrative Court next week over the government's repealing of the lotteries.
About 50 sellers yesterday gathered in front of Parliament to call on the National Legislative Assembly to consider the effects of the measure. Group leader Thawat Sathitwithaya said the government had not indicated how it would help the 400,000 unemployed sellers all over the country. Thawat said he would prosecute the Government Lottery Office in the Supreme Administrative Court on an allegation of violating sellers' rights. He would also ask the court to temporarily protect the lottery vendors. Thawat said that not only the vendors were affected by the measure, but also the government. For example, the government had suffered a loss of revenue, an unemployment problem and the spread of underground lotteries. These problems would make the drafting of a new constitution worthless, he added. "The government deceived us that sales of the lotteries would be stopped temporarily and we gave it cooperation, but it did not sincerely help us when we asked it to help us. If there is no state lottery, it seems that there is no underground lottery suppression," Thawat said.
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