The Thai Raksa Chat Party’s demise is a windfall, especially for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, says ISEAS' Dr Termsak Chalermpalanupap.
SINGAPORE: The Thailand Constitutional Court’s decision on Thursday to dissolve the Thai Raksa Chat Party surprised only a few people in the country.
In the 2011 elections, Thaksin’s Pheu Thai Party triumphed in the polls and formed a coalition government with Yingluck as prime minister, making her Thailand’s first female head of government.In May 2014, however, her government was toppled in a coup led by Thailand’s current Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha, who was the army chief at the time. Yingluck was subsequently charged with dereliction of duty for failing to stop widespread corruption in her government’s rice price schemes.
She resides in Borom Phiman Royal Mansion inside the Grand Palace complex in Bangkok. And, in the hearts and minds of most Thais, she has unquestionably remained the revered eldest daughter of the late King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit. The announcement reiterated that the rules and conventions of constitutional monarchy required that the monarch and all members of the royal family “be above politics and politically neutral”The Thai Raksa Chat Party’s nomination of the princess was deemed an undertaking which could be “hostile” to the democratic system of constitutional monarchy with the monarch as head of state. This led to the guilty verdict that ordered its immediate dissolution.
Understandably, Thaksin wanted to avoid putting all of his political eggs in the Pheu Thai basket. The first two political parties that he founded, Thai Rak Thai and Phalang Prachachon, were both dissolved for election wrong-doing, and the Pheu Thai could be next on the chopping block. Most prominent among these three is Thailand’s oldest party, the Democrats, led by former Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. The party was the opposition leader during the Yingluck administration, after coming second in the 2011 general elections. It is still trailing in third place in various opinion surveys, after Pheu Thai and Phalang Pracharat.
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