<span style="color: #222222;">In Thailand, the anti-military Thai party was dissolved today and its key members banned from politics for a decade over a six million US dollars loan by its founder. The nine-member Constitutional court today dissolved the Future Forward Party (FFP), ruling the loan by its founder, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit breached the law governing political parties.</span><br />''<br />''A judge said the loan exceeded the 315,000 US dollar limit on donations to parties by an individual. The judge said, 16 party executives, including founder Thanathorn, were also banned for running for political office for 10 years. Thanathorn has been a fierce critic of military involvement in politics in a country whose history is peppered with coups.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">Thailand's current Prime Minister led the 2014 coup against the elected government of Yingluck Shinawatra. The FFP emerged from nowhere in March last year to become Thailand's third-biggest party in the first elections since a 2014 coup. The party's calling for full democracy, an end to conion and the removal of the army from politics and business.</span><br />