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Pita and MFP face two court cases

Pita Limjaroenrat, the Move Forward Party leader and prime ministerial candidate, greets supporters during a rally at CentralWorld in Bangkok on Sunday. (Photo: Wichan Charoenkiatpakul)

The legal troubles of Pita Limjaroenrat and the Move Forward Party (MFP) grew on Wednesday as the Constitutional Court accepted two cases on the eve of a vote on Mr Pita’s premiership bid in Parliament.

Hours after the Election Commission forwarded its recommendation that Mr Pita be removed as an MP for media shareholding, the court separately accepted another complaint accusing the MFP of “attempting to overthrow the democratic system with His Majesty the King as the Head of State”.

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