Pita’s political career was shaken in March when Thailand’s election commission asked the country’s top court to dissolve the MFP.
This was after an earlier ruling by the court that the party’s pledge to reform the royal lese-majeste law amounted to an attempt to overthrow the constitutional monarchy.
New York-based Human Rights Watch says the laws have been used to silence political dissent.
Pita, meanwhile, has warned against the weaponisation of Thailand’s judicial system.
He said 33 parties have been dissolved in Thailand over the past two decades, including “four major ones that were popularly elected”.
“The issue is not what we will do if we are dissolved – that is already taken care of and our ideas will survive – but rather the pattern of weaponising the judiciary and independent bodies that we should pay attention to,” Pita said.
“I hope that the Thai people do not view the party’s dissolution as a normal strategy employed by the Thai elite.
“We should not normalise this behaviour or accept the use of a politicised court as a weapon to destroy political parties.”
Pita said the executive of the MFP, which has 148 seats in Thailand’s 500-seat Parliament, will form a new vehicle if the party is dissolved.
