Future Forward Party supporters gathering outside the political party’s headquarters, after the Constitutional Court ruled to dissolve the party, in Bangkok. Future Forward Party, a stridently anti-military Thai party, was dissolved on Feb 21 and its key members banned from politics for a decade over a US$6mil loan by its billionaire founder. - AFP
BANGKOK: Thai students are expected to stage a protest this weekend against a court's decision that dissolved the country's second largest opposition party, less than a year after an election to end direct military rule.
The Constitutional Court on Friday disbanded the upstart Future Forward Party, which won more than 6 million votes last year and came in third, for accepting loans from its founder.
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