Wriggle room and double standards for the Democrat Party

As PPT mentioned in an earlier post,the Democrat Party is facing an electoral fraud case and both Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya made much of independence, the probity of the judicial system and a willingness to accept the decision in the case. Most of all, they emphasized that there were no double standards.

But as The Nation reports: “It’s seemingly an unbelievable theory, but stranger things have happened in Thai politics”: it has been seen that the Democrat Party has wriggle (and/or wiggle) room. The party’s executives may well “be able to avoid the five-year ban from politics even if the party is found guilty of misusing state subsidy.” That means Abhisit and several others. The deal seems to revolve around “the ruling party is being tried under the Political Party Act, as opposed to the Election Law, which was used to overthrow the People Power Party (PPP) in 2008 over charges of electoral fraud.”

Read the story as it sets out an interesting scenario. If it comes to pass, there are going to be plenty of people shouting double standards. And rightly so.

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