Rep caught watching porn during plenary

Pascal Oparada

A member of the Parliament in Thailand was caught looking at porn on Wednesday while a budget was being read.

Ronnathep Anuwat staring intently at his phone the House was in session.

Shocked reporters at the press gallery snapped the pictures of the politician who removed his face mask to look more closely at the pictures.

One showed a young woman with her top off, another was lying naked on a bed and a third showed a close up of genitals.

When reporters confronted Ronnathep, he admitted looking at the pictures but said he was doing so because a girl had sent them to him. He said he wanted to make sure the girl was not in any trouble.

He said he wanted to ‘observe the environment surrounding the girl in the picture’ as he feared she was ‘being harassed by gangsters who had forced her to take the pictures’.

Mr. Ronnathep said he eventually realised the girl was ‘asking for money’ so he deleted all of the content.

Government officials summoned the MP for an explanation but ruled no further action would be taken against him.

House speaker Chuan Leekpai said the images were a ‘personal matter’ and added there were no rules about what MPs could look at on their phones in the meeting room.

He said no MPs had complained about the matter so no action would be taken, and further warned the public to separate personal matters from MPs duties.

Mr. Ronnathep represents Chonburi province for ruling military Palang Pracharath Party.(theexpressng)