ASSESSMENTS

Thailand: Banning Thaksin's Party, Testing Loyalties

May 30, 2007 | 22:14 GMT

Summary

The Thai Constitutional Tribunal, Thailand's highest court, found the Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT) guilty of electoral fraud but acquitted the Democrat Party of all charges late May 30. TRT was found guilty of allowing its former leader, ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, to abuse elections as a "tool for monopolizing power." TRT will now be disbanded and all of its present and former executives will be banned from domestic politics for five years. The ruling means the loyalties of former Thaksin supporters bought off by the government finally will be put to the test.

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