Volume 2 · Issue 2 (2025)
Analyze the Role of the Thai Constitutional Court in Thailand's Constitutionalism from Examples of the Judicial Review of the Constitutionality of Election
Ke Li
University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
Abstract: Thailand’s Constitutional Court used its power of judicial review to invalidate two cases of electoral disputes, creating political vacuums in the military coup. In the process, the definition of “abuse” reveals that the Constitutional Court has been interfered with or "packaged" by political forces, abusing judicial review to maintain the legitimacy and sacrifice its own neutrality. It becomes the spokesperson of the political forces led by the opposition to Thaksin. Through horizontal and vertical analysis, the power of the Constitutional Court has been continuously expanded, and the judges have intervened and adjudicated political disputes with political positions, constantly denying the measures of the representative government and the results of democratic elections. It has led to the contradiction between the rule of law and the development of democratic politics and undermines the core values of constitutionalism, exacerbating Thailand's already fragile constitutionalism crisis
Keywords: Thailand’s Constitutional Court; Constitutionalism; Judicial Review; Elections; Democracy
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