Top three courts demand for EC resignations
Three top courts have issued their strongest demand for the Election Commission to resign as they found that the EC committed what they called "enormous errors" by supervising the April 2 national election in ways that they deemed unconstitutional.
"The sooner the EC resigns, the less damage the country will suffer. On the contrary, their resistance in continuing to supervise the new election will certainly cause huge damage to the country," said Supreme Court Secretary General Charan Pakdithanakul.
Charan was speaking after attending a meeting on Tuesday of the Supreme, Constitution and Administrative Courts. The first meeting of the three top courts took place after HM the King assigned the judiciary authorities to seek a solution to the current political crisis.
The Constitutional Court have already nullified the April 2 election because it was unconstitutional and ordered a new election. They have suggested that the EC resign but three members have so far refused.
Charan said on Tuesday that the Courts would definitely refuse to participate in any activities organised by the EC because the Constitution Court has ruled that the EC violated the charter by not organising the April election in an appropriate manner.
"The EC has made enormous errors under the democratic system when they conducted the April election, resulting in the Constitution Court nullifying it," Charan said.
Charan added that three remaining Election Commissioners should resign now that a fourth commissioner Charupat Ruangsuwan has already done so.
The three courts met on Tuesday for the third time and agreed that they did not recognise a proposal that the new election be set for October 22 because only three commissioners participated in the May 15 meeting.
"Now that Gen Charupat has already resigned from the EC, the courts believe that the three other remaining commissioners should also resign," he told reporters.
The EC organised a meeting on Monday of some political parties to set a date for new elections while the main opposition parties - the Democrats, Mahachon and Chat Thai - boycotted the meeting. The EC and the meeting participants agreed on a proposal for October 22 as the date for the new election.
Charan told reporters that the courts did not recognise the proposal as the meeting did not include the required four commissioners.
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