BANGKOK: More than three dozen former lawmakers of a pro-democracy party in Thailand face a lifetime ban from politics after the nation’s anti-graft agency found them in breach of ethical standards over a failed bid to amend the royal insult law.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission said Monday that 44 former lawmakers from the now-dissolved Move Forward Party had “failed to uphold and maintain the democratic system of government with the King as Head of State” by submitting a petition to amend the lese majeste law in 2021.
The ex-legislators also failed to “protect and preserve the institution of the monarchy, national independence and sovereignty,” the agency said in a statement.