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A fraught year in politics
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published : 30 Dec 2020 at 11:02
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It is often said that Thailand resolves around political events. Here are the five most dynamic and attention-grabbing stories the youth-led, anti-government protests, the Future Forward Party’s spectacular fall, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha surviving the Constitutional Court’s rulings that threatened to deliver the death warrant on his premiership, the Provincial Administrative Organisation (PAO) elections held for the first time in six years and the internal turbulence experienced by the main opposition Pheu Thai Party which have left their mark this year.
1. Anti-government protests
Anti-government protesters, most of whom were students, fill Ngam Wong Wan and Phahon Yothin roads at Kasetsart intersection in Bangkok on Oct 19. (Photo by Varuth Hirunyatheb)
Police barricades on inner city roads
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published : 10 Dec 2020 at 10:39
44 Police build a shipping container barricade against anti-government demonstrators across a road in inner Bangkok early on Thursday morning. (Photo supplied)
Police used shipping containers to block inner Bangkok streets on Thursday morning, ahead of planned anti-government rallies close to Government House and the Grand Palace.
The barricades were placed at Thewet Narumit Bridge on Samsen Road, Wisawakam Naruman Bridge on Nakhon Ratchasima Road, Makkawan Rangsan Bridge on Ratchadamnoen Nok Avenue, Chamai Maruchet Bridge on Phitsanulok Road, Orathai Bridge on Luk Luang Road, in front of the Supreme Court on Ratchadamnoen Nai Avenue, and in front of Wat Mahathat Yuwaratrangsarit on Na Phra That Road.