Constitutional Court to rule on Future Forward’s fate today

[webfact]

Constitutional Court to rule on Future Forward’s fate today

 

Photo from the Future Forward Party

 

The Constitutional Court is set to rule this afternoon whether Future Forward Party has broken the law by obtaining loans totaling over 191 million baht from its leader Thanathorn Jungroongruangkit.

 

A guilty verdict would put an end to the meteoric rise of the young political party which has been making political waves with its anti-establishment and sometimes divisive political viewpoints.

 

The charge was brought against the party by the Election Commission which accuses it of breaching   the Political Parties Act which doesn’t classify loans as a permissible source of financing and which also limits a person’s contribution to a political party to 10 million baht a year.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/constitutional-court-to-rule-on-future-forwards-fate-today/

 

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[cornishcarlos]

There will only be one result...

The fix has been in for months now !!

He had a good run but it's time to let the dinosaurs keep feeding....

[YetAnother]

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

A guilty verdict would put an end to the meteoric rise of the young political party

the result will be predictable; old guard squashing the challengers; human nature

[thequietman]

16 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

the result will be predictable; old guard squashing the challengers; human nature

They have already set up a new party for their supporters to turn to, if it goes pear shaped.

[scorecard]

41 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

There will only be one result...

The fix has been in for months now !!

He had a good run but it's time to let the dinosaurs keep feeding....

 Has anybody seen what time the verdict will be announced?

 

 

[anchadian]

https://asiatimes.com/2020/02/clouds-gather-and-swirl-over-thailands-prayut/

 

Clouds gather and swirl over Thailand’s Prayut

Failing governance, economic weakness and ill influence all conspire to truncate ex-soldier's democratic rule

 

The opposition Future Forward party is simultaneously pushing various envelopes aimed at undercutting Prayut’s power bases, including measures aimed at pushing the military back to the barracks. Various charges pending against the upstart party could backfire on Prayut if it is dissolved for dubious reasons and its energized followers take to the streets in protest.

[TheAppletons]

1 minute ago, anchadian said:

https://asiatimes.com/2020/02/clouds-gather-and-swirl-over-thailands-prayut/

 

Clouds gather and swirl over Thailand’s Prayut

Failing governance, economic weakness and ill influence all conspire to truncate ex-soldier's democratic rule

 

When a deranged man destroyed a sacred idol at Bangkok’s world-famous Erawan Shrine, prompting enraged worshippers to kill the assailant on the spot, then-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is known to have viewed the incident as a bad omen for his rule. Presciently, his government fell six months later in a 2006 coup.

  Holy Mother of Buddha.  Yes, please.