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PARTY TELLS SUPPORTERS TO MONITOR VERDICT ON MEDIA AMID TIGHT SECURITY

The Constitutional Court on Wednesday set March 7 as the date to deliver a ruling on the Election Commission (EC)’s petition asking for it to dissolve Thai Raksa Chart Party.

THAI RAKSA CHART PARTY SUBMITS DEFENCE TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

THE ELECTION Commission (EC) yesterday announced the names of 2,810 party-list candidates who are qualified to contest the March 24 election – including representatives of the Thai Raksa Chart Party.

Thai Raksa Chart Party’s executive members on Friday suspended their campaigns to prepare their defence against party dissolution.

Rungrueng Pittayasiri became the first executive member of the controversial Thai Raksa Chart party to tender his resignation from the party.

His Majesty the King issued a statement on Friday night prohibiting his older sister Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi from entering politics after she decided to accept a pro-Thaksin Shinawatra party’s invitation to run as its PM candidate.

A royal and a commoner, film star and tourism ambassador, Ubolratana has 31 million Thai children among her fans

Ubolratana says her shock emergence as pm candidate is her constitutional right as a commoner; Thai Raksa Chart’s election surprise hatched at party executive session

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha issued a statement on Friday saying he accepted pro-junta Phalang Pracharat Party’s invitation to be its PM candidate just minutes after the pro-Thaksin Shinawatra party Thai Raksa Chart revealed its big surprise – the nomination of Princess Ubolratana.

Princess Ubolratana, the sole Thai Raksa Chart party candidate for premiership, said on Friday that she wanted to use her rights and freedoms under the Constitution as a commoner.

Princess Ubolratana on Friday veered from the entertainment circuit and into politics as she was announced as the sole prime-ministerial candidate for the Thai Raksa Chart Party, which is affiliated with former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.