When Thailand’s opposition Transfer Ahead Celebration triumphed in final 12 months’s elections, it seemed like a “watershed” second for the nation, stated Thitinan Pongsudhirak in Nikkei Asia (Tokyo). The occasion had promised to reform the highly effective monarchy, and seemed prepared to finish years of stultifying rule by the generals who’d taken energy in a 2014 coup.
It wasn’t to be. Transfer Ahead was blocked from forming a authorities by the senate, the members of which had been appointed by the junta. Final week, issues acquired even worse when Thailand’s constitutional court docket ordered the occasion dissolved and banned its leaders from politics for a decade, stated Pravit Rojanaphruk on Khaosod (Bangkok). The choice is a hammer blow for the 14 million individuals who voted for change final 12 months, and makes a mockery of the concept that this nation of 71.8 million is a correct democracy.
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