Thailand’s polling body said Monday that it will investigate if front-running prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat is qualified to run for office, which could derail his plan of forming a new government.
The Election Commission said the probe will determine whether Pita ran in last month’s election despite being aware of his disqualification owing to his ownership of shares in media firm ITV, which violates election rules.
ITV ceased operations in 2007, but political activist Ruangkrai Leekitwattana said the company is still actively doing radio broadcasts and advertising, Thai PBS reported.
Ruangkrai claimed that Pita owns 42,000 shares in ITV and alleged that Pita failed to include this in his 2019 asset declaration. ITV was said to have generated 20 million baht ($579,165) in revenue last year….