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Post by jackspratt » February 1, 2024, 7:43 pm

It seems a couple have gone unnoticed, or at least uncommented.
Thailand's popular Move Forward Party faces dissolution after losing bid to amend strict defamation laws
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-01/ ... /103414450
Thai Constitutional Court allows Pita to keep parliamentary seat

Former Move Forward leader clears media shares case but faces larger challenge

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Thai-C ... ntary-seat
One step forward, 3 steps back. :(



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Post by Laan Yaa Mo » February 2, 2024, 5:16 am

It doesn't look good with only a glimmer of hope that Move Forward and its elected representatives will survive.
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Post by tamada » February 2, 2024, 1:23 pm

Pita, the 40-odd MP's who signed the pledge to amend the charter, the MFP and all who briefly rode in the MFP charabanc, are toast.

A whole, Warburton's-sized loaf of toast.
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Post by jackspratt » February 2, 2024, 1:52 pm

Same as it ever was, in a country that pretends it is a democracy.

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Post by Laan Yaa Mo » February 2, 2024, 5:12 pm

jackspratt wrote:
February 2, 2024, 1:52 pm
Same as it ever was, in a country that pretends it is a democracy.
It will end as it usually does with the military, business elites and certain individuals deciding the political fate of politicians who are deemed a threat to the status quo.
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Re: Recent Developments

Post by tamada » February 2, 2024, 6:08 pm

jackspratt wrote:
February 2, 2024, 1:52 pm
Same as it ever was, in a country that pretends it is a democracy.
Now now, let's not get ahead of ourselves here. Thailand is like your girlfriend: it's different. It has a "special democracy". That's what Prem Tinsulanonda called it when he assumed the Prime Ministerial mantle many moons ago and it has served the nation well ever since.
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Post by jackspratt » March 13, 2024, 2:26 pm

jackspratt wrote:
February 2, 2024, 1:52 pm
Same as it ever was, in a country that pretends it is a democracy.
Thailand's Move Forward Party set to be disbanded over concerns lese majeste policy threatened monarchy
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-13/ ... /103581986

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Re: Recent Developments

Post by Bandung_Dero » March 13, 2024, 3:28 pm

Laan Yaa Mo wrote:
February 2, 2024, 5:12 pm
It will end as it usually does with the military, business elites and certain individuals deciding the political fate of politicians who are deemed a threat to the status quo.
Agreed, the outcome will end in another coup if the "Move Forward" party gains too much momentum and the puppet parties with the corrupt bureaucrats not keeping them under control. :evil:
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Re: Recent Developments

Post by tamada » March 14, 2024, 11:34 am

Bandung_Dero wrote:
March 13, 2024, 3:28 pm
Laan Yaa Mo wrote:
February 2, 2024, 5:12 pm
It will end as it usually does with the military, business elites and certain individuals deciding the political fate of politicians who are deemed a threat to the status quo.
Agreed, the outcome will end in another coup if the "Move Forward" party gains too much momentum and the puppet parties with the corrupt bureaucrats not keeping them under control. :evil:
An argument has been posed that the Section 112 law is part of the Thai Criminal Code and therefore not in the purview of the Constitutional Court.

Recent coups have been led by the military against popular, elected governments. Due to the duplicitous actions of the Shinawatra's, this current government is in no shape or form a popular or elected one. It's fundamentally the same elite/military cronyism with a fake veneer of populism. Unless there's an undisclosed band of disenfranchised generals, typically graduates from the same military school, who feel the urgent need to top-up their retirement funds, I don't see another coup. However, I can see public protests where more supporters of the dissolved MFP will be arrested and detained than any from the counter-protesting royalist camp.
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Re: Recent Developments

Post by tamada » March 18, 2024, 7:59 pm

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