A decisive political actor rather than a purely technical body: it has dissolved several major political parties, including Thai Rak Thai in 2007, Future Forward in 2020 and Move Forward in 2024, and has removed prime ministers from office including Samak Sundaravej, Yingluck Shinawatra and Srettha Thavisin. Anyone assessing Thai constitutional risk needs to treat this court, not parliament, as the forum where governmental questions are settled.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- constitutional
- Court type
- Constitutional court
- Jurisdiction
- Review of the constitutionality of bills and statutes, dissolution of political parties, determination of the qualifications of ministers and members of parliament, and resolution of disputes over the powers of constitutional organs.
- Seat
- Bangkok
- Established
- 1998
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