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Thai opposition leader accuses junta of trying to ‘destroy’ party


Thanathorn says military regime has brought multiple legal cases against him and his party





“They are trying everything to destroy us,” Mr Thanathorn told the Financial Times in the library of his home in an upscale development in Bangkok. “They believe if they can prosecute the leaders of the party, then the party will be gone.”
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Mr Thanathorn said that Future Forward’s leadership and the party itself faced 16 accusations, six of which were against him personally and some of which were criminal charges. “It’s amazing how far they could go just to stay in power, by any means — through family pressure, threatening my family, buying my MPs,” Mr Thanathorn said. “This is very serious.”

The EC last week resolved to press a charge against Mr Thanathorn for his sale of shares in V-Luck Media Company, the publisher of Thailand’s defunct Who magazine. Thailand’s election law bars media company shareholders from running for office.

However, Mr Thanathorn denied any wrongdoing in the case. He described the company as “dormant” and said that the sale was completed on January 8, before he filed his candidacy as an MP.

Separately, Mr Thanathorn was charged this month with sedition and helping a criminal suspect flee in connection with a May 2015 demonstration that was declared illegal under draconian rules barring protests. Mr Thanathorn told the FT that in reality he gave one of the suspects a lift after police questioning the following month, in a van registered to a company where his mother is a director.

Mr Thanathorn said that he had a voice recording proving that Future Forward MPs had been approached with offers of Bt30m-Bt50m ($940,000-$1.56m) if they agreed to switch their affiliation to the pro-junta party. “At this point, the market price for one MP is more than $1m in cash,” he said.
“Our military reform agenda is a threat to their power, to the status quo.”

The PPRP and the EC were not immediately available to comment on Mr Thanathorn’s remarks.

The Future Forward leader also said the EC was using a formula to calculate the number of seats that would cost Future Forward eight of its seats, and the anti-junta coalition its majority.
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Thailand’s foreign diplomatic and trade partners are monitoring the continuing fallout from the election.

Source: Financial Times


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