Trairong Suwannakhiri, the deputy leader of the United Thai Nation Party (UTN), said the party did not offer Democrat MPs a hefty sum of money to defect to the UTN ahead of the election.

His clarification came following a remark by Democrat leader Jurin Laksanawisit recently, in which he claimed a number of Democrat members had been offered large sums of money to leave the party's ranks by another political outfit.