Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said on Thursday that Nawat Tocharoensuk’s murder conviction this week clearly disqualified him from serving as a member of Parliament.

The Khon Kaen Provincial Court today (September 24) sentenced Nawat Tocharoensuk, the former Khon Kaen MP of the Pheu Thai Party, to death for being the mastermind behind the 2013 murder of Suchart Kotthum, the former chief administrator of Khon Kaen Provincial Administrative Organisation.