Thailand’s Constitutional Court on April 3 said it will rule on whether to dissolve the political party that won the most seats in last year’s election for allegedly violating the constitution by proposing to amend a law against defaming the country’s royal family.
The court said it had accepted a petition from the state Election Commission to hear the case against the Move Forward party after finding there was enough evidence and instructed the party to submit evidence on its own behalf within 15 days.
The court’s decision is the latest move in what is seen as a yearslong attack against the country’s progressive movement by conservative forces trying to keep their grip on power. Move Forward’s predecessor, the Future Forward party, was dissolved by a Constitutional Court ruling in 2020 for violating election laws on donations to political parties. The dissolution was one of the triggers for youth-led pro-democracy protests that sprung up across the country in 2020.
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