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Thailand election 2023

Thaksin is back, but can the Shinawatras win over a changing Thailand?

From coup to comeback, the Shinawatra clan’s restoration has thrust Thailand into a reckoning with its past – and an uncertain future.

24 Aug 2024 - 12:30PMvideocam

Opinion | Can the US lure a China-friendly Thailand back into its orbit?

18 Aug 2024 - 6:52PMvideocam

Thailand’s new PM Paetongtarn to remain in father Thaksin’s ‘shadow’: analysts

16 Aug 2024 - 5:41PMvideocam

Thailand’s Pheu Thai party chooses Paetongtarn Shinawatra as PM candidate

Thai politics has endured two decades of chronic instability marked by coups, street protests and court orders.

16 Aug 2024 - 12:20AMvideocam

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra greets supporters with his youngest daughter Paetongtarn. Photo: AFP

Thai court dissolves election winning reform party, bans executives from politics

The party was found guilty of attempting to overthrow the monarchy for its calls to reform the country’s royal defamation law.

7 Aug 2024 - 8:07PMvideocam

Asian Angle | Thailand’s grand compromise: is Thaksin’s deal with political foes in danger?

The unlikely alliance could yet stand the test of legal and political pressure despite four seemingly interconnected high-profile cases.

13 Jul 2024 - 11:00AM

Thai court delays decision on Move Forward Party’s dissolution case

The pro-democracy group is accused of attempting to overthrow the monarchy by promising to overhaul the royal defamation law.

12 Jun 2024 - 2:04PMvideocam

Move Forward Party’s former leader Pita Limjaroenrat speaks at a political event in Bangkok on May 19. Photo: EPA-EFE

Thailand’s Move Forward party to ‘fight tooth and nail’ against dissolution

The election commission sought to disband Move Forward after the constitutional court in January ruled the group’s campaign to loosen Article 112 of the Thai penal code amounted to an attempt to overthrow the constitutional monarchy.

9 Jun 2024 - 8:16PMvideocam

Thailand’s ex-PM Thaksin to face trial for royal defamation

Thailand’s lese-majeste law, which carries up to 15 years in jail per conviction, has been wielded against pro-democracy activists in recent years.

30 May 2024 - 3:28PMvideocam

Thailand’s poll body asks court to disband party that won 2023 election

The move comes after a ruling by the Constitutional Court that said Move Forward violated the constitution with its plans to change a law against insulting the monarchy.

12 Mar 2024 - 6:19PM

Thailand’s election commission will ask the Constitutional Court to dissolve the reformist Move Forward Party which won most seats in last year’s election. Photo: AFP

Asian Angle | In Thailand, Srettha Thavisin is the prime minister, but is he really in charge?

Thailand’s politicians and foreign leaders have preferred to turn to Thaksin Shinawatra, even though the 75-year-old is serving a jail term for corruption.

10 Mar 2024 - 11:00AM

Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin during the Asean-Australia Special Summit 2024 in Melbourne on Wednesday. Photo: Asean-Australia Special Summit 2024/via AFP

Jailed ex-Thai leader Thaksin to be released Sunday, PM Srettha says

Thaksin has been in hospital detention since August, after making a dramatic homecoming from living abroad for 15 years in self-exile to avoid prison for a conflict of interest.

17 Feb 2024 - 3:16PM

Former Thai PM Thaksin charged with royal insult

Thailand has some of the world’s strictest royal defamation laws protecting King Maha Vajiralongkorn and his close family, with each charge bringing a potential 15-year prison sentence.

6 Feb 2024 - 5:00PMvideocam

Jailed Thai ex-PM Thaksin qualifies for ‘special’ parole next month

Thaksin, whose eight-year jail sentence was commuted to a year following a royal pardon, qualifies for release on parole next month due to his age and health.

17 Jan 2024 - 9:00PMvideocam

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra waves at Don Mueang airport in Bangkok on August 22. Photo: Reuters

Thai ruling party elects Thaksin daughter as leader

Pheu Thai is the latest incarnation of the party founded by Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s father, who was in self-imposed exile for 15 years following a coup.

27 Oct 2023 - 6:10PM

The new leader of the Pheu Thai Party, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Photo: EPA-EFE

Can US$275 handout to citizens benefit Thailand’s economy, property market?

Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin’s plan to stimulate the economy and consequentially prop up a flagging property market by ramping up government spending and boosting consumption has received mixed reactions from analysts.

23 Oct 2023 - 8:30AM

Thailand still bullish on Chinese investments as new PM heads to Beijing

Net foreign direct investment to Thailand from China in the first six months of 2023 was up 56 per cent year-on-year to US$690 million, central bank data showed.

17 Oct 2023 - 4:55PMvideocam

Thailand’s opposition Move Forward Party names new leader

Chaithawat Tulathon, a former political magazine editor, will head the progressive party after Pita Limjaroenrat stepped down earlier this month.

23 Sep 2023 - 5:00PMvideocam

The new leader of the Move Forward Party, Chaithawat Tulathon, right, is congratulated by the chairman of party advisory committee Pita Limjaroenrat after he won a vote for the new party leadership during the party’s meeting in Bangkok. Photo: EPA-EFE

‘Most popular’ Thaksin could play advisory role after jail release, says Thai PM

Thailand PM Srettha Thavisin says Thaksin Shinawatra can play a role in the government, and that it would be ‘unwise’ of him not to seek the ex-premier’s opinion.

21 Sep 2023 - 1:54PMvideocam

Former Thai leader Thaksin eligible for parole in February

The Thai king had commuted Thaksin’s eight-year sentence to a year, but he could be released sooner on parole for prisoners older than 70 or those who are ill.

18 Sep 2023 - 7:53PM

Thai artist pelted with poop in show of protest against army-linked government

Architect and artist Duangrit Bunnag carried out a promise to be pelted with faeces in a performance following the formation of a coalition government involving army-backed parties.

3 Sep 2023 - 11:01AMvideocam

Thai architect Duangrit Bunnag has bags of cow faeces thrown at him in response to Pheu Thai Party’s inclusion of army-linked parties in the government coalition. Photo: AFP

Thai PM Srettha Thavisin to take finance portfolio amid tepid economic growth

Reviving Thailand’s faltering economy will be one of the biggest tasks for political newcomer Srettha, who became prime minister last month.

2 Sep 2023 - 4:03PM

New Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin (R) visits street food vendors at Thaiphat Market in Bangkok, Thailand, on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE

Thai king reduces former PM Thaksin’s prison sentence to one year

The Royal Gazette state journal said 74-year-old billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra had ‘accepted his crime and shown remorse’.

2 Sep 2023 - 1:27AMvideocam

Thai billionaire ex-PM Thaksin requests royal pardon

Thailand’s most famous politician returned home last week from living abroad in self-exile for 15 years after his party was ousted in a coup.

31 Aug 2023 - 7:38PMvideocam

Thaksin’s daughter says ex-Thai leader fatigued as hospital stay criticism grows

Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Thailand last week after 15 years of self-imposed exile and was immediately sent to prison, but was transferred to a hospital just hours after he began serving an eight-year sentence.

29 Aug 2023 - 7:19PMvideocam

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra beside his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra at Don Mueang airport in Bangkok on August 22. Photo: Reuters

Asian Angle | Thaksin’s back, but Thailand’s anti-democratic forces are as strong as ever

Thailand’s politics is set to enter another volatile era with the election of Srettha Thavisin as prime minister, and the return and incarceration of former leader Thaksin Shinawatra.

27 Aug 2023 - 10:30AMvideocam

Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra greets his supporters as he arrives at Don Mueang airport on Tuesday. Photo: Zuma Press Wire/dpa

New Thai PM Srettha discusses overcoming divisions with coup leader

Srettha Thavisin – who needs to form a cabinet from an 11-party alliance – has met with his ex-military predecessor Prayuth Chan-ocha, the architect of a 2014 coup against the last Pheu Thai government.

24 Aug 2023 - 6:14PMvideocam

Editorial | Thaksin return may bring badly needed stability to Thailand

Former fugitive prime minister can help new government led by member of his own political party balance urban and rural interests.

24 Aug 2023 - 6:15AMvideocam

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Thailand election 2023

Latest news and updates on the Thailand general election which takes place on May 14, 2023. This vote is shaping up to be a battle between the pro-establishment groups of the ruling military-backed coalition and a pro-democracy camp of opposition parties.

last updated:

9 September, 2024