The opposition Move Forward party released an 8-minute video today, featuring interviews with some key party members over the future of the party, ahead of the reading on August 7th of the Constitutional Court’s decision on its possible dissolution.
The party also posted messages on social media, saying that the case currently pending is no different from the case against its predecessor, the Future Forward party four years ago and against the other parties in the past 20 years.
Other parties dissolved by the charter court include two predecessors of Pheu Thai, Thai Rak Thai and Palang Prachachon, and Thai Raksa Chart, an offshoot of Pheu Thai.
“Dissolving a party may put an end to a party as a legal entity, but such a decision cannot stop our ideology and we will move on, no matter what happens to us on August 7th,” says one message.
“From Future Forward to Move Forward to the future,”” says another.
In the latest dissolution case, the Move Forward party is accused of attempting to upend the constitutional democracy through its election campaign and activities to amend the lèse majesté law.
On January 31st, the Move Forward party leader and the party itself were found guilty by the Constitutional Court of attempting to do just that.
Four years ago, the Future Forward party was dissolved and its executive committee banished from politics for ten years by the court, when it ruled that a loan of around US$6 million extended to it by its leader, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, was a donation and, therefore, illegal.
