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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Is it too soon to remember some of our fave Prayuth moments?

Over eight years since Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha seized power in a coup d’etat, the courts today achieved what protesters and opposition party members could only dream of.

Prayuth, who installed himself as prime minister eight years ago today, was suspended from the nation’s top political job by the Constitutional Court while it decides whether he has run out of time under the law.

The constitution, written and passed under military supervision, set an eight-year term limit for the prime minister. For Prayuth, that ran out today. The court, which is vested with the power to snuff out political careers, essentially reversed a Supreme Court ruling last week that Prayuth’s term did not officially begin until the new constitution was promulgated in 2017.

His right hand man since the junta days, Gen. Prawit Wongsuwan has said that the ruling party he heads, Phalang…

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