Socialist Front (Thailand)
Socialist Front พรรคแนวร่วมสังคมนิยม | |
|---|---|
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| Chairman | Keaw Norapiti |
| Founded | 21 November 1974 |
| Dissolved | 1976 |
| Headquarters | Thailand |
| Ideology | Socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
The Socialist Front was a political coalition in Thailand, formed by leftwing parties in late 1956.[1] The main group in the coalition was the Economist Party, led by Thep Chotinuchit.[2] The other two constituents of the Socialist Front were the Free Democratic Party and the Hyde Park Movement Party.[3] Thep Chotinuch was the chairman of the Socialist Front.[4] The parliamentarians who founded the Socialist Front came from northeast Thailand.[5] The Socialist Front favoured a neutralist foreign policy, and called for Thai withdrawal from SEATO.[6]
In the 1975 general election the Socialist Front won ten seats, all of them from the northeast. In total the Socialist Front got 3.8 percent of the nationwide vote.[3]
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