Political activist Srisuwan Janya was attacked today (Thursday) by an elderly man at the Office of Election Commission (EC), after he had filed a complaint about the Pheu Thai party’s manifesto promise to make a one-time 10,000 baht digital money payment to every Thai national aged 16 and over.
Srisuwan was talking to the Press after his meeting with the EC when the man, whose identity is not known, approached him and slapped him once on the face.
The incident caused a commotion among the members of the media, but the assailant did not flee and told the media that he had struck Srisuwan because he files complaints on almost every issue and he wonders whether the activist might have been hired by somebody.
Srisuwan later showed to the media a cut on his lip, which he claimed was a result of the slap, and said that he would go to Thung Song Hong police to file a complaint, adding that he did not know the attacker.
This is the second time that Srisuwan has been attacked in public for his routine filing of complaints over numerous issues. The first assault occurred on October 18th last year, at the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB), when he lodged a complaint against a stand-up comedy show called “Diao Microphone 13”.
In his latest complaint, Srisuwan accuses the Pheu Thai party of violating the election law, the Bank of Thailand Act and laws governing fiscal discipline and digital assets by promising to give away 5.6 billion baht of taxpayers’ money for political purposes.
He questions where the money will come from and claims that such spending will impact state coffers.
