Thailand’s serial complainants are back at work. While political parties are racing to form a government after the dismissal of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, three complaints have been filed for the dissolution of the Pheu Thai Party, two of which also call for the dissolution of the People’s Party.

Thairath Online reported that Ruangkrai Leekitwattana, a Palang Pracharat Party member, said he sent a letter to the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) requesting that it petition the Constitutional Court for the dissolution of the Pheu Thai Party. He claimed that the actions of party leader Paetongtarn  are in opposition to the constitutional monarchy and are a violation of Section 92 Clause 2 of the 2017 Organic Law on Political Parties. He also said that the ECT should use the Constitutional Court’s 29 August ruling as evidence.

Meanwhile, serial petitioner Srisuwan Janya also filed a petition with the ECT accusing former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and former Future Forward Party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit of improperly dominating political parties after Thaksin and Thanathorn reportedly met to discuss the possibility of the People’s Party voting for Pheu Thai’s Prime Minister candidate Chaikasem Nitisiri.

Sections 28 and 29 of the 2017 Organic Law on Political Parties prohibit parties from allowing non-members to dominate their activities. Violating these sections could result in dissolution.

Srisuwan claimed that Thaksin and Thanatorn are not party members. Thanatorn was banned from politics for 10 years after the Future Forward Party was dissolved, he noted, while Thaksin has been found guilty of corruption by the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Persons Holding Political Position. He said that negotiations between the pair on the formation of a new government could amount to domination.

Royalist activist Sonthiya Sawasdee, former Ruam Thai Sang Chart MP Palang Pracharath MP candidate, said that he plans to file a similar petition. He said that if Thaksin and Thanatorn successfully brokered a coalition between the two parties, then it could mean that the parties had allowed non-members to dominate them, and he will be filing a petition with the ECT seeking their dissolution. If the People’s Party does not want to face the consequences, he said, then it must vote for the candidate from the Bhumjaithai Party.

With 143 seats in parliament, the People’s Party could be the deciding factor in the race to form a government. Neither Pheu Thai and Bhumjaithai has enough votes for their candidates, and both have accepted the People’s Party conditions, which include dissolving parliament within 4 months. The People’s Party, however, has not said who its MPs will be voting for.