The Tribunal clears Democrat and Taikorn from hiring small party and wrongly accusing TRT
The Constitutional Tribunal cleared Democrat's deputy secretary general Thavorn Senniem of obstructing candidates of smaller parties from running in the April election. Trairong Suvannakhiri, party deputy leader, is also found not guilty of involving in the alleged blocking.
The Tribunal ruled that there were no evidence to justify the accusation that Thavorn tried to block Koe Plod Nee Party from running the April election.
The Tribunal also found no evidence to support accusation that Trairong involved in the blockade of candidate registration in Songkla.
Earlier the Tribunal cleared two senior Democrat members of accusations that they involved in hiring smaller parties not to contest in the April 2 election.
They were party spokesman Sathit Wongnongtoey and party's secretary general Suthep Thueksubhan.
Attorney General office had accused both of involving in the hiring of Prachathippatai Kaona party not to run in Phuket in the April election.
However the Tribunal said that after examining the evidence, they found that both did not involve in the accused acts. Both also did not pay money to the smaller party to contest in the election
The Tribunal also said Taikorn Palasuwan, did not hire Wattawit Tantipirom, leader of Better Life Party to wrongly accuse Thai Rak Thai. What Taikorn did was merely seeking evidence.
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