In less than 24 hours before the voting for prime minister starts in parliament today, the Election Commission (EC) jumpstarted the process to disqualify Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat from the top job, citing his alleged iTV share ownership.
The agency yesterday sent the case to the Constitutional Court, asking it to suspend the MFP leader as an MP immediately. The MFP and its sympathisers found the rush unacceptable. The party questioned if the EC had misstepped, challenging the move’s legality as the agency failed to pinpoint the attemped foul play in the case, let alone the complications in the iTV case. This includes how could Mr Pita control the media channel given the fact that the company had been in dormancy for more than a decade.
