March 13 lessons
Who's in charge?
The a number of legal issues that you might want to have your students consider today. First is the idea of how you might prove that a political party is a nominee of another. I made several suggestions of the type of evidence the EC might need to have in my introduction:Would they need evidence that Mr Thaksin is making key PPP policy? Would they need evidence that banned former TRT members are involved in the party behind the scenes? Would they need evidence that the PPP is receiving funding from Mr Thaksin or former TRT members?
You might have your students think of additional evidence as well.
Next, from the story, does it many difference if a party is a nominee of another? Is it against the law? The story gives one opinion on this and have the students find it.
One thing that is against the law is for a banned politician to become involved with a political party? Does that seem to be the issue considered by the EC at this point? (Not really, or at least, not directly)