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Supreme Court drops case on July 3 poll nullification
BANGKOK, June 7 (TNA) - Bangkok's Supreme Court rejected on Tuesday a case filed by two complainants seeking the highest court's order for the nullification of the country's upcoming general election, set on July 3.
The Supreme Court ruled that its legal jurisdiction does not cover the enactment of any royal decree on organising the national poll.
Earlier, the two complainants, Major General Napol Kochkaew, a senior Thai army officer, and Somkid Homnaet, an academic and a civic activist, filed the case with the Supreme Court on June 1, accusing the Election Commission (EC) and Thai caretaker prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva for wrongfully enforcing a royal decree on Thailand's next general election on July 3 and asking the highest court to nullify the forthcoming national poll.
The co-complainants also accused Abhisit of interfering with the national electoral process and the election agency of failing to stop politicians who have been banned from politics in the Constitutional Court's previous orders, namely exiled ex-Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, from getting involved in ongoing vote campaigning. (TNA)
The Supreme Court ruled that its legal jurisdiction does not cover the enactment of any royal decree on organising the national poll.
Earlier, the two complainants, Major General Napol Kochkaew, a senior Thai army officer, and Somkid Homnaet, an academic and a civic activist, filed the case with the Supreme Court on June 1, accusing the Election Commission (EC) and Thai caretaker prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva for wrongfully enforcing a royal decree on Thailand's next general election on July 3 and asking the highest court to nullify the forthcoming national poll.
The co-complainants also accused Abhisit of interfering with the national electoral process and the election agency of failing to stop politicians who have been banned from politics in the Constitutional Court's previous orders, namely exiled ex-Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, from getting involved in ongoing vote campaigning. (TNA)
