(BangkokPost.com) - Acting Thai Rak Thai party leader Chaturon Chaisaeng said Thursday he is studying a way to fight the Constitution Tribunal's verdict that ordered the party be dissolved and its executive members be banned from politics for five years.
Mr Chaturon said he plans to file an appeal, after learning that the decision of the nine tribunal judges was not unanimous and that President of the Supreme Court Panya Thanomrod refrained himself from voting.
Mr Chaturon, who earlier said he would accept the court verdict regardless of outcome, said he will also fight on the ban on 111 executive members, saying the coup makers' Announcement 27 that bans executive members from politics can be applied.
He claimed the announcement cannot be retroactively applied because it was announced by coup makers after the offences were committed.
Thai Rak Thai party offers its members an opportunity to sign up for a new party, and Mr Chaturon insisted that the new party will use the old name Thai Rak Thai without changing a single alphabet.
He admitted, however, that he has not received any contacts from banned executive members who had planned to found new political parties including Somsak Thepsuthin and Suwat Liptapanlop.
Mr Chaturon denied to reveal whether he invites ex-prime minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh to be a leader of the new party.
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