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Move Forward ban would shatter Thailand's last democratic veneer

Powerful bodies keep removing public's favored representatives

| Thailand
Chaithawat Tulathon, center left, current leader of the Move Forward Party, with supporters at a Labor Day march in Bangkok on May 1. (Sipa via AP Images)

Thitinan Pongsudhirak is a professor in the political science faculty of Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok and a senior fellow at its Institute of Security and International Studies.

It has become a foregone conclusion in Thailand that the Move Forward Party, which won the most seats in the May 2023 election, will soon be dissolved by court order.

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