Democrats file petition to block charter amendment
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The Democrat Party joined the anti-charter amendment bandwagon Tuesday by getting its legal experts file a petition with the Constitutional Court seeking to block changes to Article 68.
In the petition filed by Wirat Kalayasiri, the Democrat Party asked the court to dissolve six political parties on charges that their MPs were trying to overthrow the country’s constitutional government by trying to amend Article 68.
The six political parties are Pheu Thai, Chart Thai Pattana, Chart Pattana, Palang Chon, Mahachon and New Democracy parties.
The petition referred to an earlier Constitutional Court ruling that people could invoke Article 68 to protect the country’s constitutional monarchy by submitting petitions to the court directly. However, the planned amendments to Article 68 seek to require people to submit petitions only through the Office of the Attorney-General.
Consequently, the petition says, the amendments supported by 312 MPs and senators should be regarded as an effort to undermine the constitutional monarchy and hence the parties these MPs come from should be dissolved.
The Nation
