People’s favourite: Thanathorn receiving gifts from his supporters outside the Constitutional Court in Bangkok, Thailand. — AP
Bangkok: The billionaire frontman of Thailand’s anti-military bloc was stripped of his MP status over a media shareholding case, a court ruling that could lead to him being banned from politics and jailed for up to 10 years.
The leader of the upstart Future Forward party, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, 40, shook up the country’s arch-royalist power structure when his party became the third-largest in March elections.
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