BREAKING: Constitutional Court says Thai PM Prayuth must suspend duties while it decides if he overstayed legal term limit.
Prayuth led a military coup that ousted an elected government in May 2014. His critics contend the eight years expired Tuesday, the day before the anniversary of Prayuth officially becoming prime minister in the military government installed after the coup.They say his time should be counted from when the current constitution, which contains the provision limiting prime ministers to eight years, came into effect on April 6, 2017.
Whether Prawit would actually take the prime minister’s job is not clear. Prawit has publicly acknowledged his health is not good and is better known as a behind-the-scenes political organizer.If he is not forced out of office, Prayuth must call a new election by March next year, though he has the option of calling one before that.
In 2020, thousands of people took to the streets in multiple protests to demand that Prayuth and his Cabinet resign. They charged that he came to power illegitimately, while also calling for the constitution to be amended and the monarchy to be reformed. Small protests appealing again to Prayuth to step down and the Constitutional Court to force him to if he didn’t have been held daily since Sunday.The major faction of the protest movement, calling itself Ratsadon — The People — issued a statement Sunday affirming its call for Prayuth’s ouster.
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