Footage shows Thai protesters who are angry at the country's recent sham election waving their smartphone lights at a rally on Friday night.

The supporters of the Move Forward party demonstrated at the Kasetsart University in Bangkok following the army's Communist-style move to ban the recent poll winner Pita Limjaroenrat from politics.

Harvard-educated Pita Limjaroenrat - the first ever Thai awarded a scholarship to the prestigious U.S. school - won the quasi-democratic vote on May 15 with 38 per cent of the total but was repeatedly blocked by the royalist establishment from becoming Prime Minster due to 'threats to national security' over his progressive manifesto.

Military-controlled courts also ordered the former executive director of NASDAQ-listed ride-hailing app Grab to be suspended from politics while they investigate probate shares in an inactive media company held by his late father.

The move to silence the leader of the hugely popular Move Forward party was launched when Pita vowed to stick to his pledge to scrap Lese Majeste laws and legalise criticism of Thailand's controversial monarchy, which is the richest royal family in the world following years of draining the public purse and widespread indoctrination of the populace.

Researchers claimed that in 2021, the Thai monarchy received a budget of 1.09 Billion USD - more than 10 times the amount received by the British Royal Family.