THAILAND: Fears of fresh political crisis after Thai Rak Thai ruling

Updated May 31, 2007 19:22:26

There are fears of a fresh political crisis in Thailand after the country's leading constitutional judges ruled to disband the hugely popular Thai Rak Thai party, once led by ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Mr Thaksin has also been punished for his role in electoral fraud allegations in last year's general election and banned from politics for five years. The Constitutional Tribunal however, cleared the Democrat Party of any wrong doing in the April 2006 poll.

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