Thailand's Move Forward Party Faces Legal Challenges and Dissolution Threat

The progressive Move Forward Party, winner of last year's general election, confronts a series of legal hurdles and a potential dissolution, jeopardizing its reformist agenda.

• Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled that the Move Forward Party's pledge to amend the royal defamation law is unconstitutional, posing a threat to its existence.
• Former PM candidate Pita Limjaroenrat and other political figures received suspended sentences for an unlawful rally in 2019, adding to the party's legal woes.
• The party's dissolution could lead to political unrest, echoing the aftermath of the Future Forward Party's dissolution, which sparked mass protests.
• Move Forward's liberal agenda, including reforms to the monarchy and military, faces opposition from the military-installed Senate and royalist conservative elite.
• The party's potential dissolution and the legal challenges against its members could destabilize its efforts to implement democratic reforms.

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