{"id":62528,"date":"2024-03-13T10:05:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T01:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/13\/thailand-move-forward-party-could-be-dissolved-progressive-anti-defamation-law"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T01:05:16","slug":"thailand-election-body-seeks-to-dissolve-progressive-party-that-won-2023-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62528","title":{"rendered":"Thailand election body seeks to dissolve progressive party that won 2023 vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after court found that efforts to amend lese majeste laws by Move Forward party were unconstitutional<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s election body has said it will seek the dissolution of a pro-reform party that won the most votes in last year\u2019s election, saying there is evidence the party \u201cundermines the democratic system with the king as the head of state\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Move Forward came top in last year\u2019s election after promising major reforms, including to amend Thailand\u2019s draconian lese-majesty law, under which criticism of the powerful royal family can lead to up to 15 years in prison. However, the party was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/22\/thaksin-shinawatra-anger-and-anticipation-in-thailand-as-exiled-former-pm-expected-to-return\"> blocked from taking power<\/a> by military-appointed senators, and is now threatened by a number of legal cases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/13\/thailand-move-forward-party-could-be-dissolved-progressive-anti-defamation-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move comes after court found that efforts to amend lese majeste laws by Move Forward party were unconstitutionalThailand\u2019s election body has said it will seek the dissolution of a pro-reform party that won the most votes in last year\u2019s election, saying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62547,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62528\/revisions\/62547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}