From BBC News today:
Thai parties face break-up threat
Thai prosecutors have recommended that both the ruling Thai Rak Thai party and the main opposition Democrat party be disbanded for violating election laws.
A spokesman for the Attorney General's office said prosecutors had unanimously agreed that the two parties, along with three others, had committed violations.
The Constitutional Court must now decide if they should be disbanded.
Correspondents say this possibility, though unlikely, highlights continuing uncertainty after April's election.
The courts invalidated the controversial poll, and a new election date has tentatively been set for 15 October.
Voting fraud
Thailand's Election Commission initially put forward the charges against the two main parties, ruling that they had violated separate election laws.
The case was then passed to a committee appointed by the attorney general's office.
"Prosecutors have decided that the cases should be submitted to the Constitutional Court to consider dissolving the parties," the attorney general's spokesman Attaphon Yaisawang told reporters on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's party, Thai Rak Thai, is accused of illegally financing smaller parties to run against it, to make the polls appear more legitimate after the main opposition parties boycotted the vote.
The Democrat Party is accused of violations relating to its decision to boycott the poll.
Analysts say the accusations will only add to Thailand's political impasse.
Because the April election failed to form a parliament, Thailand's revered king made a rare intervention, calling on the country's courts to take action. The judges quickly ruled that the entire election was invalid and ordered a re-run.
The courts and the election commission - which has been heavily criticised over the April poll - are still trying to agree on a definite date for this next vote.
Thai parties face break-up threat
It's a Mexican standoff, Thai style! Both will get a slap on the hand and told not to do it again and it will be business as usual. Or...TRT will resurrect as Democrats and Democrats as TRT, as legal, re-registerd parties to run opposite each other in the upcoming election. Of course, the new Democrats will spend a fortune telling everyone they are really TRT and the old Democrats will just sit back and get elected? However, TRT may register as the Red Guard Party and the Democrats as the Crimson and Clover party. This was reported widely this evening in all Karoke bars throughout the land. Many locals were interviewed about these new develoments, but the only worthwhile reply came from a 78 year old Issan woman who spit her bettle nut juice onto the camera lens. Pete