Looming court battle on party dissolution involving Democrats

The party dissolution case involving the Democrats will rest with the final decision by Suchart Sukhagganond, the registrar of political parties and concurrently the Election Commission chairman, EC member Sodsri Sattayatham said on Friday.
The Democrat Party stands accused of involving in alleged irregularities stemming from the Bt258 million campaign contributions.
On its Thursday's meeting to debate the case, the EC failed to form a consensus on the case, hence deciding to entrust Suchart to have the final say.
Of the five EC members, Sodsri, Prapun Naigowit and Somchai Juengprasert voted in favour of referring the case to Suchart instead of ruling whether to dissolve the main coalition party.
Visuth Pothithaen cast a lone vote for punishment by party dissolution. And Suchart, in his capacity as EC chairman, opposed the party dissolution.
The Nation