<p>What promised to be a peaceful march to Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha&rsquo;s house by the Talu Fa (Pierce the Sky) group made no more headway than other protests earlier this week. The protesters withdrew after police used force to keep them from reaching their destination.</p>

<p>Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha has withdrawn the 29th order under the Emergency Decree that banned the distribution of information causing fear or public disorder regardless of its veracity. &nbsp;This follows a Civil Court ruling to suspend the order on the grounds that it was unconstitutional and exceeded the powers of the government.</p>

<p>Prime Minister plans to ask various sectors to propose a plan for the country to move forward and to improve citizens&rsquo; lives in the coming weeks.</p>

<p>2019 is counted as the year when the arc of Thai politics was most striking since it was a time of transition from the &lsquo;dark era&rsquo; under almost 5 years of the NCPO to the &lsquo;hazy era&rsquo; after the election (which had been postponed 6 times) under the 2017 Constitution whose complicated design locked politics into a multilayered parliamentary system, and the Future Forward Party emerged to strongly challenge the old system.</p>