Thailand opposition leader warns of instability ahead of court rulings


Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of the Move Forward Party, in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday (August 1). – Bloomberg

BANGKOK: The figurehead of Thailand’s main opposition party has warned that court decisions this month may dissolve his party and potentially unseat the prime minister, risking fresh instability in South-East Asia’s second-largest economy.

Pita Limjaroenrat, who led the reformist Move Forward Party to an electoral victory last year but was thwarted from forming government, said in an interview that the two court cases may bring about "quite a political inferno here in Thailand.”

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