Sodsri dismisses reports of parties dissolution

Sodsri dismissed the reports as just a rumour saying the EC has yet to receive the result of the investigation from the panel.

A source said the four-member investigative panel on Tuesday concluded its report recommending for the dissolution of two coalition parties, Chart Thai and Matchima Thipataya.

The panel reached an unanimous decision that the two parties were linked to electoral fraud involving their executives who had been red carded in the December 23 election.

The panel's report is expected to be submitted to the Election Commission to rule on the matter on Thursday.

Should the EC concur with the report, its next step is to petition the Constitution Court for a judicial review on whether to dismantle the parties.

Two EC members, Sumeth Upanisakorn and Somchai Juengprasert, said, however, that they found no clear legal basis to penalise the two parties by dismantling. A clear case for breakingup a party is about opposing democracy but whether the linkage to a fraud is qualified as a threat to democratic rule has no judicial precedents, Sumeth said.

The Nation