Much More Rope For Thai Premier Prayuth?
Junta leader looks for ways to circumvent constitutional deadline
By: Pithaya Pookaman
As the constitutional dateline of August 24 approaches for Thailand’s leader Prayuth Chan-ocha to end his premiership, questions abound over whether the former junta leader can legally extend his job for an unprecedented third term.
The 2017 constitution that Prayuth himself wrote after successfully staging a military coup in 2014 to …
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