Looking beyond broad-stroke statistics, Saowanee Alexander argues that Pheu Thai victories in constituencies where its established candidates defected to the pro-junta side show the enduring loyalty of redshirts in the party’s northeastern stronghold.
It was a sunny monsoon day in October 2017, (...)
Concerned not to appear as a pawn of the regime, the Thai Constitutional Court creatively appropriated widely accepted liberal-democratic traditions of judicial reasoning to legitimise the party’s dissolution.
On 7 March 2019, Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolved the Thai Raksa Chart party (...)
Asian Network for Free Elections says international standards were not met in recent vote
International independent observers have declared that the process of counting the votes in Thailand’s election lacked transparency and was “deeply flawed”, adding to a climate of mistrust and uncertainty in (...)
Although the results of the election on March 24, 2019 are still not officially confirmed by Thailand’s military-appointed Election Commission, the Association of Thai Democrats Without Borders would like to offer the following preliminary analysis, opinions and comments on the numbers for (...)
Headache Stencil’s work portrays Thai democracy as a game for the ruling elite
His works began appearing overnight on the streets of Bangkok and Chiang Mai five years ago, incendiary satirical depictions of the military officials who took power in Thailand in the 2014 coup.
The authorities (...)
On 14 February 2019, the Constitutional Court of Thailand accepted the request of Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) to rule on the dissolution of the Thai Raksa Chart (TRC) Party. In other words, 9 judges will decide the fate of the 2019 Thai general election.
9 judges of the (...)
Here is an easy-to-understand guide to Thai General Election 2019 - beginning with the basics, followed by selection of answers to questions we have received. Send questions you think we should answer to thammachart prachatai.com. What is the 2019 General Election?
The 2019 General Election (...)
Restrictions on political parties’ campaigning raises questions of how free and fair will much-postponed poll be
Social media campaigning will be heavily restricted in the upcoming Thai election, in a move political parties claim will gag freedom of expression and directly affect younger (...)
The EU has been accused of sending out the wrong message after removing Thailand from a list of countries failing to tackle illegal fishing.
Campaigners claim that the European commission’s decision this week to lift Thailand’s “yellow card”, in place since April 2015, gives consumers an “illusion (...)
International news magazine The Economist, which has covered the Thai monarchy better and more bravely than any other mainstream media organisation, has a new article about King Vajiralongkorn.
It makes a very important point that other media tend to be too afraid to say — real power in (...)
New song taps in to pent up anger over corruption and nepotism under country’s ruling junta
In a sweaty Bangkok basement over the weekend, hundreds of young Thais, hands in the air, roared angrily along with a rap song being performed on stage. “My country points a gun at your throat,” they (...)
Thailand: Election Countdown Begins
Lift Restrictions on Fundamental Rights to Enable Free and Fair Elections
(New York) – Thailand’s military junta should immediately lift restrictions on civil and political rights so that upcoming national elections can be free and fair, Human Rights Watch (...)
Press release: Thai women’s group oppose Thailand joining CP-TPP
Chiang Mai, Thailand
The Thai Department of Trade Negotiations on 4th September held the second public hearing on the Comprehensive Progressive-Trans Pacific Partnership (CP-TPP), which the Thai government expressed interest to (...)
The boys had applied for citizenship before they became trapped in the cave in northern Thailand last month
Three of the young soccer players who were trapped in a cave in northern Thailand for almost three weeks were granted Thai citizenship on Wednesday.
Their coach, Ekapol Chanthawong, 25, (...)
As Thailand’s military dictator, Prime Minister and former General Prayut Chan-o-cha visited Europe last week in a desperate attempt to woo more foreign investment, Thai democracy rights protesters rallied in Paris, London and Bonn, calling for his arrest for crimes against his own people. They (...)
The junta has ordered seven of the most prominent pro-democracy activists charged with crimes including sedition after they launched a protest campaign calling for general elections to be held in November.
From left, an unidentified protest photographer, Rangsiman Rome, Nutta Mahattana and (...)
The Royal Thai Army is conducting a programme to educate kindergarten children to be patriotic through the junta’s controversial nationalistic 12 Thai Values.
On 21 December 2016, Lt Col Phansak Phraewphanit, Commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion of the 29 Army Regiment in Kanchanaburi (...)
Political parties, despite their divergent ideologies, are united in urging the junta to lift its ban on political activity now that the Organic Act on Political Parties is in effect. Meanwhile, the junta head has announced that the next general election will be held in November 2018.
On 8 (...)
PRAYUTH SAYS GOV’T RIGHT TO TAKE YINGLUCK ASSETS BEFORE VERDICT
BANGKOK — Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said Thursday his government was right to confiscate the bank accounts of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra as it was a separate matter than her malfeasance trial, which has yet to (...)
Controversy is mounting over the unexplained disappearance of democracy from Thailand.
Democracy has traditionally been located in the various Thai constitutions, but observers noted recently that the new constitution seems to have no democracy in it. It has been replaced by long-winded (...)
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