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Thailand Likely Cuts Another Democratic Movement Short

Youth revolution unsettled the military, Bangkok elites, and the palace

Our Correspondent
Jul 12, 2023
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The political revolution kicked off by youthful Thai voters that gave the center-left Move Forward Party a powerful mandate to form a coalition government looks likely to be thwarted at the last minute, with the country’s electoral commission asking the Constitutional Court to disqualify the party’s leader, Pita Limjaroenrat, from office on what critics…

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