Bhumjaithai party proposes death penalty for vote buying and selling
in Politics | July 14, 2014 (1,108 views)
A core member of the Bhumjaithai party has proposed that buying and selling votes should get death sentence.
In voicing his opinion to the problems of vote buying and selling that has undermined the Thai democracy for several decades, the former Nakhon Ratchasimna MP said the existing laws must be amended to increase maximum penalties on vote buying and selling.
Boonchong Wongtrasirat, also a former deputy interior minister in the Samak Sundravej governmen, said politician who is ruled guilty of buying votes not only must be banned for life in politics, but also must get the maximum penalty for the crime, while the party involved be dissolved and also banned forever in politics.
Convicted politician must either get life imprisonment sentence or death penalty for the crime, he said.
For people who sell their votes to crooked politicians, they also should get either life imprisonment or death sentence, he said.
Such maximum penalty will effectively stamp out vote buying and selling from this country once and for all, he said.
Bhumjaithai or Thai Pride Party, was founded on November 5, 2008.
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