BANGKOK – “Thailand’s future is up for grabs,” proclaimed the eminent Thai scholar Thitinan Pongsudhirak just before the country’s Constitutional Court ruled, in effect, that the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and its two smaller coalition partners are “illegal,” and hence must disband due to “election frauds” committed by party executives a year ago. Party leaders, including Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, are barred from politics for five years.
曼谷－就在泰国宪法法院有效判决执政的人民力量党(PPP) 及其两个小联盟党“非法”，并且人民力量党(PPP)党由于其执行委员一年前的“选举舞弊”而必须被解散，包括总理颂猜·翁沙瓦在内的人民力量党(PPP)领导人5年之内禁止参政之前，泰国著名学者提蒂南·蓬素提叻（Thitinan Pongsudhirak ）宣称，“泰国的未来任人抢夺”。