Future Forward Party leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit reacts as he watches Thailand's Constitutional Court ruling, at the party's headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand on Feb 21, 2020. - Reuters
BANGKOK (AFP): A stridently anti-military Thai party was dissolved Friday (Feb 21) and its key members banned from politics for a decade over a US$6 million loan by its billionaire founder, a withering blow to the kingdom's pro-democracy movement.
The ruling could edge a politically febrile kingdom -- whose economy is shrinking -- closer to the street protests, which have scored much of the last 15 years of Thai history.
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