Delaying a certainty

Move Forward recently applied to the country’s most prominent political court – the Constitutional Court – for an additional 30 days “to present evidence in its defence against an application, by the Election Commission, seeking the dissolution of the party and banishment of its executive committee members from politics for 10 years, on charges of attempting to overthrow the country’s Constitutional Monarchy.”

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The court granted just 15 days.

Move Forward “hopes that the court will conduct an enquiry, which would allow the party to present witnesses to support its case.”

In other words, the party wants the court to properly conduct a legal case. Based on its now long record of politicized decision making, this seems unlikely.

As the linked report makes clear, the “Constitutional Court has already found the party guilty of attempting to overthrow Constitutional Monarchy for its election campaign to amend Article 112 of the Criminal Code, more commonly called the lèse majesté law.”

It would be a remarkable decision if the court decided that this quite ludicrous determination would not mean dissolution.