BANGKOK: Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Thursday accepted a complaint seeking to remove Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin from office for giving a ministerial position to a former lawyer with a criminal conviction.
Srettha was not suspended from duty pending a verdict in the case, as had been sought by a group of senators who had complained that last month’s appointment to his cabinet of Pichit Chuenban was a violation of the constitution.The decision will be a blow to a government that has seen three ministers quit in recent weeks, while it battles to jumpstart an underperforming economy and ensure it has the funds to deliver on a delayed election promise of cash handouts for 50 million people.
Pichit has long been a close aide of the billionaire Shinawatra family, whose parties have won all but one election in the past two decades.As a lawyer he fought, and lost, big court cases against former premiers Yingluck Shinawatra and brother Thaksin Shinawatra, the founder of Srettha’s ruling Pheu Thai party.
The government has said it had carefully vetted Pichit’s qualifications and was confident it could defend his appointment in court. Thaksin still holds significant sway in politics, despite officially being retired and having spent 15 years in self-imposed exile until his return last year.
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