PoliticsThai opposition pressures government to ditch military constitution
People's Party to use censure debate to raise issue of reform
Thailand's conservative Constitutional Court has wide powers to delay efforts to reform the country's constitution, which dates back to 2017 and the last military government. © Getty Images
BANGKOK -- Thailand's opposition People's Party is eyeing this week's annual censure debate in parliament to grill the governing coalition over its waning appetite to reform the 2017 constitution, a legacy of the last military junta to perpetuate an ultra-conservative grip on power.