The Rise of Thailand’s Third Branch
What a difference a year makes. On May 8, 2006, Thailand’s Constitutional Court made a landmark decision to void a boycotted election held the previous month in which Thaksin Shinawatra’s Thai Rak Thai party won a decisive victory.
At the time, many here lauded the judges for stepping up and checking the power of Thaksin’s so-called “parliamentary dictat…
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