Setback for Thailand's Move Forward Party as court accepts dissolution case


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  • Wednesday, 03 Apr 2024

Move Forward Party supporters gather to protest a day after the party's leader Pita Limjaroenrat failed to win parliamentary support to become prime minister, in Bangkok, Thailand, July 14, 2023. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday accepted a case seeking the dissolution of the opposition Move Forward Party, in another blow for a popular anti-establishment movement pushing major institutional reforms in the country.

The court agreed to take on a complaint filed by the election commission asking to disband Move Forward for its controversial campaign to reform a law that shields the powerful monarchy from criticism, under which at least 260 people have been prosecuted in the past few years.

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