A stridently anti-military Thai party was dissolved Friday and its key members banned from politics for a decade over a $6 million loan by its billionaire founder, a withering blow to the kingdom's pro-democracy movement.
The party's radical agenda - calling for full democracy, an end to conscription and the removal of the army from politics and business - won it 6.3 million votes and pitched it against the powerful, conservative military.But since their strong poll showing, Mr Thanathorn and his 76 lawmakers have faced relentless rounds of legal cases in Thailand's courts.
A defiant Mr Thanathorn, who has 29 court cases lodged against him and his party, told supporters"don't give up, don't stop the dream." Late Friday around 500 Future Forward supporters - many young - gathered at its downtown Bangkok headquarters to cheer defiant speeches and political rap songs. "I don't understand why they do this. Do they want people to come out on to the street?" a desolate FFP supporter at the party headquarters told AFP, requesting anonymity.
But the gaffe-prone former army chief has been openly ridiculed since restrictions on free political expression were eased last year.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
Democracy is overrated. I mean, look at the trash in Canberra...
Good for them, Democracy is terrible.
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