Petition to EC backed by copy of Australian appeal court ruling in heroin trafficking caseCapt Thamanat Prompow (left), a deputy agriculture minister and Palang Pracharath MP for Phayao, during the no-confidence debate at Parliament in Bangkok on Friday. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu)Two anti-government activists on Tuesday petitioned the Election Commission (EC) to ask the Constitutional Court to disqualify Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thamanat Prompow, over his past criminal record in Australia. The two said they had obtained a copy of the ruling from documents used by the opposition during the censure debate against Thamanat. They said they had previously petitioned the EC to disqualify Thamanat but they didn’t have this copy of the Australian court ruling. The two activists insist that the interpretation that the government used to judge Capt Thamanat was merely an opinion and the EC must seek a Constitutional Court’s ruling on Capt Thamanat's eligibility.

Source: Bangkok Post March 03, 2020 11:56 UTC