The Constitution Court on Thursday rejected a petition filed by former senator Ruangkrai Leekitwattana seeking the dissolution of the Democrat Party, the court’s chief spokesman Pimol Thampithakpong said.
Mr Ruangkrai’s petition accused the Democrat Party of a breach of paragraph 1 of Section 68 of the constitution.
He accused party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva of wrongly assigning 11 MPs led by Wirat Kalayasiri of Songkhla to be members of the committee for the scrutiny of a bill seeking to amend Sections 68 and 237 of the constitution after it was passed by parliament on its first reading.
In the petition, Mr Ruangkrai also asked the court to issue an injunction temporarily suspending the 11 Democrat MPs from serving on the scrutiny committee until the court ruled on the matter.
Mr Pimol said the petition was rejected on the grounds that there was no evidence that the party had violated paragraph 1 of Section 68 of the constitution as alleged.
The court also considered a separate petition filed by a group of people led by Bovorn Yasinthorn, seeking a ruling on whether 312 MPs and senators, led by House Speaker Somsak Kiatsuranont, had deprived the people of the right to protect the constitution by proposing a bill to amend Sections 68 and 237.
The court accepted the petition for future consideration.
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