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3 02 2021
Nathaporn (clipped from The Nation)
Mad monarchist conspiricist, royalist and lawyer Nathaporn Toprayoonis at it again. It is reported that he has submitted a petition to the Election Commission (EC) to dissolve the Move Forward Partyas he considers the party has engaged in “actions he deems hostile to democracy with the king as head of state.”
Nathaporn is a former advisor to the Chief Ombudsman and has previously acted as a lawyer for the People’s Alliance for Democracy, the Thai Patriots Network and other right-wing royalist groups.
In his new complaint, Nathaporn reflects the views of the establishment, so we’d guess that his petition might get some traction.
The salim phenomenon in Thai politics
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Thitinan Pongsudhirak A PROFESSOR AT CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY
published : 18 Dec 2020 at 04:00
65 In this 2010 file photo, People s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) demonstrators prepare to leave Suvarnabhumi airport after they laid siege to the airport in November of that year. The old yellow shirts of the PAD later started to don other colours before morphing into the salim . (Bangkok Post photo)
Few phenomena explain and underpin Thai politics more than the rise and decline of what is known pejoratively these days as salim, a metaphorical variation of salim, a Thai dessert comprising multi-coloured thin noodles served in coconut milk with crushed ice. Once socially attractive and politically fashionable, salim have gone out of vogue, looked down upon in a new era of anti-establishment protest for pro-democracy reforms under the new reign. What becomes of these pro-military royalist-conservati