Thai court bans party for nominating princess for PM

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS MARCH 7, 2019 / 1:39 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Thai court bans party for nominating princess for PM

Panu Wongcha-um, Panarat Thepgumpanat
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court on Thursday ordered the dissolution of an opposition party for nominating the king’s sister as its candidate for prime minister in a March 24 election, the first since the military seized power in a 2014 coup.

Banning the Thai Raksa Chart party just over two weeks before the general election struck a blow to opposition parties’ chances of defeating parties allied to the military junta that has ruled for nearly five years.

“The court has ordered that the party be dissolved,” Judge Taweekiet Meenakanit said in the Constitutional Court ruling, which also banned the party’s executive board members from politics for 10 years.

Thai Raksa Chart is one of several parties loyal to ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in an election that broadly pits his supporters against establishment parties, including one that has junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha as its prime ministerial candidate.

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[OregonBlue]

1. Good. The Shinawatras are Thai Trumps. Corrupt to the bone, pretending to be populists while they

steal the country blind.