Country declared ‘partly free’ despite the fact that election winner was blocked from forming government
(Photo: Pattarapong Chatpattarasill)
Thailand has been upgraded to “partly free” from “not free” in an annual survey by the US advocacy group Freedom House, despite its observation that the winner of the 2023 election was prevented from forming a government.
The manipulation of elections was one of the leading causes of the global decline in freedom in 2023, driving down the scores of 26 countries, according to the Freedom in the World 2024 report released…
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