A Thai court on Thursday ordered the dissolution of an opposition party for nominating the king's sister as its candidate.
A Thai court on Thursday ordered the dissolution of an opposition party for nominating the king's sister as its candidate for prime minister in a March 24 election, the first since the military seized power in a 2014 coup.
Opposition parties say Prayuth's candidacy, combined with electoral laws allowing the junta to appoint the 250-seat upper house Senate, could result in an elected government that extends military influence. The princess relinquished her royal titles in 1972 but is still officially treated as a senior member of the royal family, which is highly revered in Thailand.
New rules put in place by the outgoing military government benefit smaller parties at the expense of the top vote-winning parties through a complex formula when 150"party-list seats" are shared out in the 500-seat House of Representatives. "It was plausible in view of the princess's short-lived candidacy that the Thaksin-aligned parties even had a shot at a simple majority had her nomination not been nullified."His opponents have sought to portray his movement as insufficiently loyal to the monarchy - which he vehemently denies - and Thai Raksa Chart's nomination of the king's sister was intended to refute that assertion.
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