An angry Thai man was prosecuted for damaging an election marketing campaign poster belonging to the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP). He deliberately crashed his pickup into the poster. The suspect’s household revealed he was angry on the celebration as a end result of his request for unemployment compensation was rejected.
With the General Election set to take place on May 14, every political celebration has begun selling their insurance policies and Member of Parliament (MP) candidates for every province by putting in marketing campaign posters on footpaths and along roads in Thailand.
One such marketing campaign poster, of the PPRP’s candidate for Nakhon Sawan province, Pornwisit Jamsai, was the unlucky recipient of a random attack. A video of the poster was seen on social media and rapidly went viral after the driving force of a black pickup smashed his automobile into the poster outdoors of the celebration workplace in Nakhon Sawan.
The incident was reported to have happened on Monday, March 20 at about 5.20pm. The authorities within the workplace who witnessed the action recorded a video of the incident and reported it at Ta Klee Police Station.
In the video, the motive force, later recognized as 28 12 months old Pongsathorn, crashed his pickup into the poster. Then, he climbed out of the automobile, lay the poster on the ground, and ran his automobile over it before driving off.
Police managed to arrest Pongsathorn shortly after the incident. According to the police, Pongsathorn was drunk and lost management. He advised arresting officers that he was not a fan of the PPRP.
Officers contacted Pongsathorn’s family to choose him up on the police station. The household informed officers that Pongsathorn was indignant with the party as a end result of he submitted a request for unemployment compensation and it was rejected.
It is unclear what costs have been filed towards Pongsathorn. According to Thai Criminal Law, destroying or stealing an election marketing campaign poster is a violation of Section 358. The penalty for this offence is imprisonment for as a lot as three years, a nice of as much as 6,000 baht, or both.
PPRP is a Thai civil-military political party with ties to the National Council for Peace and Order, which has been in power since the 2014 coup. The get together is now led by Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan.
Forbidden of the PPRP, PM Prayut Chan-o-cha, will now run for prime minister underneath the Ruam Thai Sang Chart, also known as the United Thai National Party..