People in Thailand are accustomed to sudden changes of government brought on by military coups, numbering more than a dozen since the 1930s. But in the past two decades, they have increasingly seen such changes imposed by the courts, which have ousted four prime ministers and dissolved three election-winning political parties, often on narrow technical grounds.
Now anger – along with a sense of resignation – is brewing over the perceived heavy-handed involvement of Thailand’s nine-member Constitutional Court in the country’s fractious politics.
