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…according to The Nation.
Update: The People Power Party leadership has a statement.  In response to what they see as an inadequate ruling, they say that this “lessens society’s trust in the judicial process” and call it “การรัฐประหารโดยตุลาการ”: a judicial coup.

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Yesterday we highlighted international media coverage that explores how the palace is being drawn into the current conflict in Bangkok. New Mandala readers who are following this discussion may want to read Philip Bowring’s piece on “The crowd and the crown”. It touches on a range of interesting questions about Thai royalisms and republicanisms.
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Events in Thailand this week have concentrated minds on the possibility of a coup, once again, unseating a democratically-elected government.  With the sieges of Suvarnaphumi and Don Muang airports continuing, the judiciary readying its claws to dismember the institutional basis of the government, and the Prime Minister dashing around the country unable to use his [...]

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