Thailand politics

Young Thais are becoming increasingly fed up with the stifling consensus and repeated military interventions in the country's politics.

The weekend's demonstrations indicate that the momentum for political reform is unlikely to dissipate any time soon.

Beyond the headlines, what do the current protests tell us about the country’s present and future?

The student-led protest movement has declared three core demands: holding new elections, amending the constitution, and ending the intimidation of critics of the government.

Free speech could even get worse because of the suspension of lèse majesté.

Leaving the leveling of lèse-majesté cases behind, the Thai government has found softer ways to control criticism. 

Sunday's light projections from a van avoided breaching rules against gatherings that were enacted to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. 

A Thai born in 1990 has now experienced 3 economic crises, 2 military coups, and countless constitutional changes. Small wonder discontent is boiling over.

The commission announced Wednesday that Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the now-defunct Future Forward Party, had knowingly violated the law when he ran for office without divesting himself of a mass media company by a legal deadline.

Though the dissolution of a major political party may feel like a final act, it has in fact left the party and the wider pro-democracy movement in limbo in the country’s politics.

Thailand's Constitutional Court has ordered the popular opposition Future Forward Party dissolved,

A closer look at the evolution of regime dynamics in the two countries in recent years.