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Thai PM’s term in office challenged by group of 99 academics and activists


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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s term in office has been challenged by a group of 99 academics, activists and people from various professions, all of whom signed a petition letter demanding his resignation by August 23rd.

The petitioners claim that the prime minister’s eight-year term in the office will come to an end on August 23rd, as he assumed the post in the August following his leading of the coup, on May 22nd in 2014, which toppled the caretaker government of then Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

One of the academics who signed the petition, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Olarn Thinbangtieo of the Faculty of Political Science at Burapha University said, however, that he does not think the prime will resign, as they are demanding, and that the Constitutional Court may be asked to rule on the issue.....

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-pms-term-in-office-challenged-by-group-of-99-academics-and-activists/

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