“Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was banned from politics for five years and his party disbanded today, plunging the country deeper into chaos and raising fears of a violent backlash by government supporters. Party members vowed to ‘move on’ and form another government early next month. ‘We will all move to a new party, Puea Thai, and seek a vote for a new prime minister on December 8,’ Jatuporn Prompan, a People’s Power Party (PPP) member of parliament, told Reuters. The Constitutional Court also disbanded two other parties in Somchai’s six-party coalition for vote fraud in the 2007 general election and barred their leaders from politics for five years.” (12/02/08)