BANGKOK, Aug 7 — Thailand’s Constitutional Court today ordered the dissolution of the popular anti-establishment opposition party, Move Forward, over its controversial campaign...
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Former Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat waves as he walks on the day Thailand’s Constitutional Court delivers its verdict on a case seeking the dissolution of the opposite group over its call for lese-majeste reform, in Bangkok August 7, 2024.
Though the dissolution is likely to anger millions of young and urban voters who backed Move Forward and its progressive agenda, the impact of the ruling is expected to be limited, with only the party’s 11 current and former executives banned from politics for 10 years. The decision comes at critical juncture in Thai politics, with cracks appearing also in an uneasy truce between the royalist establishment and another longtime rival, the populist ruling party, Pheu Thai.
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