Thailand: Dissolve ruling party, says election watchdog

Thailand was plunged further into political crisis today when the Election Commission ruled that the governing People’s Power Party committed electoral fraud and should be dissolved.

The commission’s secretary general Suthiphon Thawichaikan said the commission voted unanimously to dissolve the People’s Power Party and the case will now go to the public prosecutor’s office which will decide whether it should be submitted to the Constitutional Court for a final ruling.