BANGKOK, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Thai Friends Party, or Pheun Thai Party, and all its electoral candidates have been kept out of the March 24 election in Thailand due to failures to abide by the law, the supreme court ruled on Thursday, according to local media reports.
The supreme court ruled that the Thai Friends Party had evidently failed to set up provincial branches or name provincial representatives as required by the constitution's organic law on political parties, thus denying its electoral candidacy in both individual constituency and party-list modes.
The party submitted a list of 154 candidates running for constituencies and a list of 52 running for party-list modes, but 153 out of the 154 and eight out of 52 have been denied candidacy earlier by the Election Commission. A party member then forwarded the case to the supreme court to rule on the candidacy.
