DavidJan 3

This is a pretty good summary of what's going on in Thai politics.

#Thailand #whatshappeninginthailand

Bangkok Post - Thaksin's return and 2025 prospects https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2931881/thaksins-return-and-2025-prospects

Thaksin's return and 2025 prospects

<p>Thailand's political environment last year was marked by machinations to keep the biggest election winner, the Move Forward Party, from power and to ensure the runner-up, the Pheu Thai Party, leads a coalition government the old guard can put up with. These manoeuvres after the May 2023 poll, initially forced Move Forward into the opposition and ultimately dissolved the party while bringing Thaksin Shinawatra back from self-exile in August 2023 for a perfunctory jail sentence and installing Srettha Thavisin as prime minister over the same period.</p>

Bangkok Post
Show threadTze Ming Mok 莫志明Jul 19, 2023
"Suddenly they tell me there's no finish line" - @se_voflurane 😞 #WhatsHappeningInThailand #ม็อบ19กรกฎา66
Tze Ming Mok 莫志明Jul 19, 2023
This is probably the last remaining week in which I can auto-translate from within Tweetdeck (or use Tweetdeck at all), and translation is quite janky for Thai, but the vibe is bleak and rageful. #WhatsHappeningInThailand
Anonymous 🐈️🐾☕🍵🏴🇵🇸 Jul 7, 2024

Great article by Ajan Jay revealing disconcerting truths about the economic hole that #Thailand's failing governance has dug for itself.

#WhatsHappeninginThailand
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Great article by Ajan Jay revealing disconcerting truths about the economic hole that #Thailand's failing governance has dug for itself. #WhatsHappeninginThailand https://t.co/Id8PQdzhl4

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thevicharNov 17, 2023

Chaiyaphum’s Life Mattered then Chaiyaphum’s life still matters now.

#ChaiyaphumsLifeMatters #WhatsHappeningInThailand #WhatsHappeningInKalanesia เหตุเกิดในเขตกักกันกะลานีเซีย

Thailand WatchAug 29, 2023
#Thailand: ‘Three Thai human rights campaigners have been found not guilty of criminal defamation over social media posts. #AngkhanaNeelapaijit...was cleared along with #PuttaneeKangkun & #ThanapornSaleelphol… Ms Angkhana has been campaigning against injustices since her husband, #Somchai, a human rights lawyer, was…disappeared 19 years ago.’ | Jonathan Head, BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66643591.amp #WhatsHappeningInThailand #CriminalDefamation #HumanRightsDefenders #JudicialHarassment #SLAPP
Thai poultry farmer loses his 36th defamation suit - BBC News

Three human rights campaigners are cleared of defamation over online posts about the farmer.

BBC News
Thailand WatchAug 24, 2023
Thaksin's return seals grand Thai political bargain. “The end of Mr Thaksin's 15-year-long exile is… part of a grand political bargain…being put in place…to end the epic contest for power between the telecoms tycoon & his populist #PheuThai party, and Thai conservative groups aligned with the military & monarchy. Both sides now face a new threat…the progressive & youthful #MoveForward party..” | Jonathan Head, BBC
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66591063 #WhatsHappeningInThailand
Thaksin's return seals grand Thai political bargain

The end of Thaksin Shinawatra's 15-year exile is no isolated event, but part of a grand political bargain.

BBC News
Thailand WatchAug 22, 2023

Erin Cook in #Thailand writes: “Pheu Thai has firmed up an alliance…[that] gives #PheuThai’s prime minister candidate #Srettha 314 votes…for [Tuesday’s] vote in the House for Srettha to do what #PitaLimjaroenrat could not — become prime minister.

“This isn’t even the big story today. 

“#Thaksin Shinawatra is back! …the former prime minister returned to Bangkok this morning…He is widely expected to receive a royal pardon at some stage.” https://open.substack.com/pub/darimulut/p/thaksins-back-sretthas-up-and-its?r=7p2cc&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post #WhatsHappeningInThailand

🇹🇭 Thaksin's back, Srettha's up and it's all happening all at once

🇰🇭 Update the style guide — it's former prime minister Hun Sen now

Dari Mulut ke Mulut
Thailand WatchAug 17, 2023
#Thailand: ‘…after the Constitutional Court…rejected the petition on the renomination of the PM candidate because the petition was not made by the affected party…[the] Speaker of the House of Representatives, announced the…3rd vote for prime minister would be…August 22. The court stated, “All complainants are individuals whose rights or liberties have not been directly violated & who cannot exercise their…right to file a petition.”’ | Khaosod https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2023/08/16/a-third-vote-on-the-pm-candidate-will-be-on-august-22/ #WhatsHappeningInThailand
A Third Vote on the PM Candidate Will Be on August 22

On August 16, the Constitutional Court unanimously rejected the petition on the renomination of the PM candidate because the petition

Khaosod English
Thailand WatchAug 17, 2023
#Thailand: “Thai lawmakers will vote for a new premier next week…after a court rejected a bid by election winner #MoveForward to challenge parliament's blocking of its candidate. The Constitutional Court dismissed the petition by allies of the party on a technicality, arguing its prime ministerial candidate, #PitaLimjareonrat, who was twice thwarted by parliament, was not among the complainants.” | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thai-court-decide-election-winners-challenge-derailed-pm-bid-2023-08-16/ #ThailandElection #WhatsHappeningInThailand
Thai court to decide on election winners' challenge to derailed PM bid

Thailand's Constitutional Court was due on Wednesday to decide whether to review a parliamentary decision that <a href="/world/asia-pacific/last-chance-thailands-pita-become-pm-parliament-votes-2023-07-19/">blocked</a> a second prime ministerial bid by election winners Move Forward, a move that could end or prolong weeks of political deadlock.

Reuters