BANGKOK: Thailand's Constitutional Court said on Wednesday (Jul 17) that it will hand down its verdict in a case seeking the dissolution of the opposition group Move Forward, the biggest party i
Chaithawat Tulathon, the new leader of the Move Forward Party , speaks after being elected by the party's members at the party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand on Sep 23, 2023.
The decision follows a separate ruling by the Constitutional Court in January that said Move Forward's campaign to change the royal insult law was a hidden effort to undermine the monarchy."We are confident in our legal defence ... and that our actions did not seek to undermine the system of governance," Move Forward leader Chaithawat Tulathon told reporters.
In a country where reverence for the monarch has for decades been promoted as central to national identity, the law, under which at least 260 people have been prosecuted in the past few years, is seen by many royalists as sacrosanct.Activists say that the law has been abused by conservative politicians to sideline and smear liberal opponents. Move Forward argues changing it would strengthen the constitutional monarchy and stop the law being misused.
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