Move Forward: Thai court dissolves reformist party that won election
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Move Forward won the most seats in last year’s election - but was blocked from forming a government.

A Thai court has ordered the dissolution of the reformist party which won the most seats and votes in last year’s election - but was blocked from forming a government.

The ruling also banned Move Forward’s charismatic, young former leader Pita Limjaroenrat and 10 other senior figures from politics for 10 years.

The verdict from the Constitutional Court was expected, after its ruling in January that Move Forward’s campaign promise to change royal defamation laws was unconstitutional.

  • @MagisterEnglish
    23•4 months ago

    Thailand is basically a dictatorship then

    • HobbitFoot English
      24•4 months ago

      It is more like an oligarchy. The king is a figurehead for others running things behind the scenes and an excuse to keep things the way they are.

      There are a lot of interests that don’t want the government that the Thai people have been voting in for the past generation.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•4 months ago

        It will end in bloodshed unless the next generation of royalty decides to go in the direction the British royal family

        • HobbitFoot English
          6•4 months ago

          Yeah, but the problem aren’t the monarchs themselves. It is the state apparatus around the monarchs that keeps fighting back.

          Even if you removed the Thai monarchy, I could easily see the country fall into being run by a junta or presidium of high ranking officials to “safeguard the country”.

          • @[email protected]English
            5•4 months ago

            I admit I don’t know enough to make a good opinion on it, aside from my personal feelings that monarchies that do not give up power to democracy are the monarchs that should have their head separated from their necks