POLITICS
The Election Commission (EC) and the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) yesterday agreed to ask the Constitution Court to decide whether the Chart Thai and Matchimathipataya coalition parties should be dissolved. The EC found the parties' executives guilty of election fraud.
EC secretary-general Suthiphon Thaveechaiygarn said a joint committee of the EC and OAG agreed the Constitution Court should make a decision on the case, to set a precedent.
''At this point, the meeting agrees that both organisations should not make their own judgement while the Constitution Court has not done so,'' he said.
Mr Suthiphon said articles 94 and 95 of the charter's organic law on political parties and Article 103 of the constitutions organic law on the installation of the House of Representatives and senators required the EC to ask the Constitution Court to decide if a party should be disbanded if its executives violated election law.
The EC earlier ruled that Chart Thai deputy secretary-general Monthien Songpracha and Matchimathipataya deputy leader Sunthorn Wilawan had bought votes to vie for House seats in the Dec 23 election last year.
Mr Monthien ran in Chai Nat province and Mr Sunthorn in Prachin Buri.
Matchimathipataya leader and Natural Resources and Environment Minister Anongwan Thepsuthin said the EC wanted to see her party disbanded but she believed it would survive the Constitution Court verdict.
Chart Thai deputy leader and Agriculture Minister Somsak Prissananantakul was also upbeat about his party's chances of survival.
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