Bangkok: Sonthiya submits to the Election Commission to investigate “Pirapan” for urgently amending the regulations prohibiting members from favoring other parties, which may violate the constitution. Asks back whether support for Pheu Thai’s entertainment complex policy is considered favoritism or not. Also, urges an investigation into the issue of him and his wife holding shares after being scheduled to give a statement on June 18.
According to Thai News Agency, Mr. Sonthiya Sawasdee traveled to the EC with 558 pages of documents for the EC to investigate the shareholding and share amendments, and the shareholders who are the wife of Deputy Prime Minister Pirapan Salirathavibhaga and her son, who are under legal process, and the positions of ministers, and regarding the application for party-list MPs, which is against the provisions of the Constitution and the ruling of the Constitutional Court in 2000, including investigating the executive board of the Ruam Thai Sang Chart Party and the party leader who issued party regulations that are against the Constitution, Section 4, Section 5, Section 114, which concerns MPs representing the Thai people who are not under any mandate, assignment, or influence, which is an action that is against the Constitution, and conflicting interests, for the Election Commission to consider and decide. Regarding the matter previously submitted, today (June 4), I received a summons from the Election Commission
to come and give a statement on June 18, and another agency that I submitted to also called me to come for questioning, but the exact date has not been set. It is expected that it will be within this month to investigate the truth of Mr. Pirapan so that the truth will be revealed.
Mr. Sonthiya said that the Ruam Thai Sang Chart Party issued regulations in March 2025 at the general meeting. In the regulations, if you look at the dictionary by the Institute of Education on the subject of attachment or care, it means that members of the Ruam Thai Sang Chart Party who will be attached or care about a political party will be a reason to fall under the newly amended regulations of the Ruam Thai Sang Chart Party in Section 5 (6), which is to terminate their membership of the Ruam Thai Sang Chart Party. In the case of Mr. Phiraphan and various ministers, they are also members of the Ruam Thai Sang Chart Party, in the Pheu Thai Party government, supporting the Entertainment Complex Policy and the Digital Wallet Policy, which shows that it falls under the regulations of the Ruam Thai Sang Chart Party or not.
Because the regulations must be enforced from the party leader down to the members, which I believe is in violation of Section 3, Section 4, Section 5 of the Constitution, which rules or regulations that conflict with or contradict the Constitution cannot be enforced. And Section 114, which states that members of the House of Representatives must be representatives of all Thai people, therefore have privileges.
Issuing such regulations a violation of the privileges of members of the House of Representatives? Therefore, I would like to ask the EC to consider and decide to forward the matter to the Constitutional Court and the Ombudsman. Previously, I had already submitted it to the Ombudsman. If he has not contacted me, I will forward the matter directly to the Constitutional Court. If the NACC does not consider or does not call me to investigate within 60 days, I will forward the matter to the Constitutional Court for a ruling in the case of Mr. Pirapan.