Thai court to rule on Prime Minister Prayuth’s political future | News

Thailand’s Constitutional Court is scheduled to deliver a decision on the term limit of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, a ruling that should decide on whether the former Thai army chief has surpassed his maximum eight years in office or not.

The court is expected to announce its decision on Friday at 3pm local time [08:00 GMT] as to whether Prayuth’s time in office should be counted as starting when he became head of a military administration on August 24, 2014, after launching a coup to remove Thailand’s elected Pheu Thai party government.

Prayuth’s critics cite the 2014 date and have argued that he is now obliged to resign as his eight years in office have expired.

Supporters of Prayuth maintain that his term as prime minister should be counted from when a military-drafted constitution containing the eight-year term limit was adopted in 2017 or when Prayuth took office…