Thai Court Accepts Petition to Disband Top Opposition Party
- Court previously ruled Move Forward guilty of charter breach
- Campaign to amend law protecting monarchy riles establishment
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Thailand’s Constitutional Court has accepted a petition to disband the nation’s largest opposition party that was previously found guilty of breaching the charter over efforts to amend the nation’s stringent royal defamation law.
The court accepted the petition by the Election Commission to dissolve Move Forward Party on Wednesday, based on the same court’s verdict in January that the group’s campaign to loosen the lese majeste law, also known as Article 112 of the Thai penal code, amounted to an attempt to overthrow the country’s constitutional monarchy.