BANGKOK, May 30 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's Constitutional Tribunal judges ruled on Wednesday night that two high-ranked members of Thai Rak Thai party (TRT) hired small parties to contest in the national election last year.

    The Tribunal said in its ruling that former TRT deputy leader Thamarak Isarangura and ex-deputy secretary general Pongsak Ruktapongpisal were found guilty of violating the election laws by paying and hiring politicians of Pattana Chart Thai party (Thai Development Party) to run in the April 2 national poll. ¡¡