A courtroom in Bangkok sentenced Move Forward Party (MFP) record member Nateepat Kulsetthasith to a two-month jail sentence suspended for two years, 12 hours of community service, and a nice of 4,000 baht after she was caught drink driving in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday morning.
Minburi Criminal Court found Nateepat responsible of violating the Road Traffic Act of 1979 after her breathalyser end result hit 66 mg/dl, exceeding the legal alcohol limit of fifty mg/dl, at three.20am yesterday at a checkpoint in Bangkok.
Nateepas will be required to report back to her probation officer each four months and complete 12 hours of group service deemed applicable by her probation officer within the next 12 months. Her driving license shall be suspended for six months.
In the brief time between the crime and the courtroom hearing, Nateepat introduced her resignation as a future Member of Parliament.
Holding the 27th spot on the MFP’s get together list, Nateepat was set to become an MP as soon as MFP chief Pita sets up a coalition authorities following the party’s dominance of Sunday’s vote. Although Nateepat resigned from the position, she still belongs to the MFP.
A soon-to-be Member of Parliament from Thailand’s Move Forward Party (MFP) was arrested for drink driving in Bangkok in the early hours of the morning. Today, she apologised for her behaviour and introduced her resignation from the get together list.
The drink driver held the 27th spot on the MFP’s celebration listing, meaning she would have positively turn into an MP as quickly as MFP leader Pita Limjaroenrat shaped a coalition government following the opposition parties’ victory in Sunday’s elections – provided that the democratic course of is not interrupted by the army as it has been up to now.
Last evening, traffic police arrange an alcohol measurement checkpoint to catch drink drivers along the Prasert-Manukit Road in Chorakhe subdistrict in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao district.
At 2am, officers stopped a “suspicious” wanting automobile with a Bangkok registration plate driven by Nateepat Kulsetthasith, a party listing member belonging to the MFP – the opposition celebration that took Thailand’s elections by storm on Sunday.
For this election, the House of Representatives has 500 members – four hundred elected from constituencies and one hundred from celebration lists. Yesterday, the Election Commission declared the MFP the winner of Sunday’s election – with 151 MPs, 112 from constituencies, and 39 from the get together listing.
Holding the twenty seventh spot on MFP‘s celebration list, Nateepat was guaranteed a seat as an MP as quickly as the model new coalition government is shaped. Now, celebration list member No.forty will take her seat in parliament.
At Clear , Nateepat refused to take a breathalyser check. Police mentioned she made some phone calls to seek recommendation and still wouldn’t cooperate or comply with the process.
At 3am, Nateepat’s companion arrived at the checkpoint and persuaded her to cooperate with the visitors police. At three.20am, Nateepat took the check and her alcohol content measured sixty six mg/dl – exceeding the legal limit of fifty mg/dl.
Police arrested Nateepat and escorted her to Khok Kram Police Station in Bangkok to be prosecuted. In Thailand, drink driving is punishable by a jail term not exceeding one year, a fine of 5,000 – 20,000 bath, or both..