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By Nirmal Ghosh, Thailand Correspondent
BANGKOK: Thailand's Constitutional Court yesterday dissolved three top ruling parties for electoral fraud and banned the prime minister from politics for five years, leaving the government clinging to office by a slender thread.
The ruling came against a backdrop of intense pressure from the right wing, royalist People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) which has been strangling Thailand's economy by staging months-long protests and seizing Bangkok's two airports last week.
Airport siege to end today
BANGKOK: Thai anti-government activists yesterday halted a protest movement that had paralysed Bangkok's airports after a court stripped the prime minister of his post and dissolved the ruling party.
The royalist People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) said it would lift its siege of the two main airports and end a 192-day campaign that has seen off two prime ministers allied to exiled former leader Thaksin Shinawatra.
'All protests will stop as of Dec 3 at 10am,' PAD founder Sondhi Limthongkul said.
Suvarnabhumi could open as early as Friday.
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