the cases were brought against pita limjaroenrat and there i against pita limjaroenrat and there areainst him and his party after that shocking election victory. nobody thought his party would do that well in last year's election, because in its previous incarnation it was banned. it ran on a reformist ticket, arguing for sweeping changes to the way thailand is run and changes to the military that launched a coup ten years ago and changes to laws relating to the monarchy. the cases were filed after and of course there was the move, once his party got this astonishing victory, where they seemed poised to form a coalition government, the senate moved in and barred him, because of the reformist proposals. this case is in the same category as those. many viewed the case against him as a very technical one, because as he pointed out, the company, the media company in which he owns shares, the shares were passed down to him by his father and hadn't been operating since 2007. usually the court rules harshly against reformist. many thought it would do the same and strip him of his seat in pa