A Thai court has ordered the dissolution of the reformist party which won the most seats and votes in last year’s election – but was blocked from forming a government.
The ruling also banned Move Forward’s charismatic young former leader Pita Limjaroenrat and 10 other senior figures from politics for 10 years.
The verdict from the Constitutional Court was expected, after its ruling in January that Move Forward’s campaign promise to change royal defamation laws was unconstitutional.
The court had said changes to the notoriously harsh lese majeste law was tantamount to calling for the destruction of the constitutional monarchy.
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