Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday set July 17 as the next hearing date in a case seeking to disqualify the popular Move Forward political party, which has 30% of the seats in the lower house of parliament. .
The president of the court said this week that the case will be heard before September. The action against the party was prompted by a request by the Electoral Commission to cancel Move Forward as it sought to change the royal insult law, also known as lese majeste, which provided for a penalty of up to ‘ten years and five years in prison for anyone found guilty. against the monarchy.
The move follows a separate ruling by the Constitutional Court in January which found the Move Forward campaign to change the royal insult law was a covert attempt to undermine the monarchy. The court ordered the game to stop the campaign and call for new support.
Party Party Party, who respects the past law of the law, deny whatever instructors and promises to pleasebade the job files that choose in front of the court. Move Forward won a majority of votes in last year’s general election on anti-establishment measures, but conservative lawmakers and senators joined the royalist forces.
The party continues to be popular among Thai voters, winning 49.2% in a recent poll of 2,000 people conducted by the National Institute of Development Administration (Nida) last month. .
The expulsion of Move Forward’s predecessor, Future Forward, in 2020 following a campaign funding scandal was one of the reasons for the mass protests against the government.
