After Move Forward felled, a new party sprouts up in Thailand

Almost as soon as Thailand’s Constitutional Court ordered the progressive Move Forward Party disbanded and its top leaders banned from politics for 10 years, the People’s Party, a new upstart party founded by former Move Forward members, took root as the new face of the Thai opposition.

One hundred and forty-three former members of the dissolved party joined forces to found the new party, a day after the court dissolved Move Forward, ruling that it had committed treason for an electoral promise made in 2023 to undo the country’s strict law against royal defamation.