
A Thai lawmaker may face an investigation after an incident with a journalist.
A parliamentary inquiry in Thailand has been formally requested into veteran politician and former army chief Prawit Wongsuwon after he punched a female journalist last week.
Party leader Palang Pracharath hit a ThaiPBS reporter on the head last week after she asked him a question about the new prime minister.
A spokesman for the PPRP party said that Prawit knew the journalist well and had apologized to her, saying that he was "harassing her as someone he is close to".
Thai PBS has demanded that Prawit "take responsibility for his alleged attempts to intimidate a journalist".
The Association of Thai Broadcast Journalists and the Broadcasting News Council of Thailand have submitted a letter to the speaker of the lower house to begin an investigation into whether Prawi's action violated the lawmaker's ethical conduct.