{"id":66077,"date":"2024-08-07T13:26:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T04:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/thailand-court-ruling-move-forward-party-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2024-08-07T22:56:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T13:56:45","slug":"thailand-facing-political-upheaval-as-court-set-to-rule-on-fate-of-progressive-move-forward-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66077","title":{"rendered":"Court bans largest Thai political party over pledge to change lese-majesty law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of progressive group Move Forward, which won most votes in last year\u2019s election,  also barred from politics for 10 years<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s constitutional court has ordered the dissolution of the country\u2019s most popular party, and banned its leaders from politics for 10 years, over its election promise to reform the country\u2019s strict lese-majesty law.<\/p>\n<p>Move Forward, a youthful pro-reform party, won the most votes in the 2023 election after pledging major changes to the country\u2019s political system, including a promise to amend a law that punishes criticism of the monarchy with up to 15 years in prison for a single charge. However, the party and its leader were blocked from taking power by military royalist opponents, and have since faced legal cases.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/thailand-court-ruling-move-forward-party-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders of progressive group Move Forward, which won most votes in last year\u2019s election,  also barred from politics for 10 yearsThailand\u2019s constitutional court has ordered the dissolution of the country\u2019s most popular party, and banned its leaders from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"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":[41,232,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-governance","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66077","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66096,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66077\/revisions\/66096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}