Thai court dissolves election winning reform party, bans executives from politics
- Thailand's Constitutional Court dissolved the Move Forward Party and banned its executive board for 10 years due to its attempts to reform royal defamation law.
- The MFP, which won the most seats in the 2023 elections, struggled to form a government after its reform agenda threatened the establishment.
- Human Rights Watch reported that the lese-majeste law has been used to silence political dissent by prosecuting at least 258 people in 2023.
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The Thai court also barred 11 party executives from holding political office for ten years. This will be the third time that the opposition party has been forced to reformulate itself. In 2020, when the predecessor party was disbanded, the population took to the streets to demonstrate
US ‘Deeply Concerned’ as Thai Court Dissolves Opposition Party
A nine-judge Constitutional Court in Thailand on Aug. 7 ordered the dissolution of the country’s main political opposition party over its advocating for changes to the kingdom’s harsh lese majeste law, a move the U.S. State Department says has left it “deeply concerned.” The court delivered its ruling on a petition submitted by the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) requesting to dissolve the Move Forward Party (MFP) due to its campaign calli…
Thailand’s Constitutional Court Shutters Main Opposition Party Bans Execs From Politics
On Wednesday, the Constitutional Court of Thailand issued a ruling that could considerably alter the political landscape of the country by ordering the dissolution of the opposition Move Forward Party and prohibiting its executives from participating in politics for a period of ten years. The court determined that Move Forward had violated the Political Parties […]
Thailand Constitutional Court dissolves opposition Move Forward Party
Thailand's Constitutional Court on August 7th dissolved the Move Forward Party, the progressive group that won the most seats in last year's election, over its proposal to amend the country's strict lese-majeste law.
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