The ruling means that former leader Pita Limjaroenrat will be barred from taking any role in politics for the next decade.
Former Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat poses for a photograph after an interview with Reuters in Bangkok, Thailand on Jul 25, 2024.
Among the people affected by this ruling is the Move Forward Party's former leader Pita Limjaroenrat, Thailand's most popular politician. Pita's popularity soared ahead of the election as he struck a chord with young and urban voters with his pledge to reform Thailand's strict royal defamation law, which rights groups say has been misused to stifle pro-democracy groups.The other 143 of its lawmakers will keep their seats and are expected to reorganise under a new party, as they did in 2020 when
The decision comes at a 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.over his appointment to cabinet of a lawyer who served time in jail. He denies wrongdoing and says the appointment was above board.
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