Progressive Party, ‘Forward’ removes the policy ‘Amend Section 112’ from the website. ‘Election 66’ of the party
Reporters report on the movements of the Forward Party. After the Constitutional Court ruled that using the policy to amend the Criminal Code, Section 112, to campaign for votes, it amounted to subverting the government. and was ordered to cease such actions Later, Mr. Rueangkrai Leekitwattana, a member of the Palang Pracharat Party Has submitted a petition to the Election Commission (EC) asking to consider dissolving the party. and disqualified the executive committee members of the Progressive Party
latest website https://election66.moveforwardparty.org which has information on ‘Election 66’ of the Move Forward Party in 3 parts: 1. information on all district MPs throughout the country, 2. information on every MP’s list and 3. policy information. More than 300 party policies, with the policy ‘Amend Section 112’ which previously appeared in the link https://election66.moveforwardparty.org/polic
y/detail/policy_21 has disappeared, and no other information regarding the amendment of the Criminal Code, Section 112, appears on this website either.
Reporters reported that This may be the result of the decision of the Constitutional Court stating that ‘Respondent Party 2 presented such a policy. to the Election Commission to use as policy in the 2023 general election campaign for members of the House of Representatives and currently appears as a policy for amending the Criminal Code, Section 112, on the party’s website Respondent No. 2, the fact that both respondents Using the proposed amendments to Section 112 of the Criminal Code as the policy of the second respondent’s party in campaigning for elections.
Even though there is no draft to amend Section 112 of the Criminal Code, it is unclear what issues will be amended. It was presented along with the policy of the 2nd Respondent’s party, but according to the 2nd Respondent’s website, it mentions the amendment of the Criminal Code, Section 112, but it
contains content to amend the Criminal Code, Section 112, in the same way as the Draft Criminal Code Amendment Act No. … B.E. … amended the defamation offense on March 25, ’21, submitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives”.
Source: Thai News Agency