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Update: Thai PM Given New Term by High Court

Against the odds, Constitutional Court Agrees Prayuth gets a new term

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John Berthelsen
Sep 29, 2022
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Update: Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled on September 30, that Prayuth Chan-ocha, the 68-year-old former general who ended representative democracy in 2014 with a military coup, can bend his own rules enough to stay on for another term as the country’s prime minister. 

The current constitution, written by the generals, stipulates that the prime mini…

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