{"id":66320,"date":"2024-08-21T11:13:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T02:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/21\/thailand-constitutional-court-protests-move-forward-party-dissolved"},"modified":"2024-08-21T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T02:13:35","slug":"anger-at-thailands-top-court-as-voters-become-numb-to-political-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66320","title":{"rendered":"Anger at Thailand\u2019s top court as voters become numb to political chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frustration brews among voters after banning of progressive Move Forward party and removal of Srettha Thavisin as prime minister<\/p>\n<p>People in Thailand are accustomed to sudden changes of government brought on by military coups, numbering more than a dozen since the 1930s. But in the past two decades, they have increasingly seen such changes imposed by the courts, which have ousted four prime ministers and dissolved three election-winning political parties, often on narrow technical grounds.<\/p>\n<p>Now anger \u2013 along with a sense of resignation \u2013 is brewing over the perceived heavy-handed involvement of Thailand\u2019s nine-member Constitutional Court in the country\u2019s fractious politics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/21\/thailand-constitutional-court-protests-move-forward-party-dissolved\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frustration brews among voters after banning of progressive Move Forward party and removal of Srettha Thavisin as prime ministerPeople in Thailand are accustomed to sudden changes of government brought on by military coups, numbering more than a dozen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4180,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-governance","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66320","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\/4180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66321,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66320\/revisions\/66321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}