Thai court rejects election winners' challenge to derailed PM bid

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BANGKOK: Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday (Aug 16) rejected a request from the election-winning Move Forward Party to review a parliamentary decision that blocked its prime ministerial candidate fro

to review a parliamentary decision that blocked its prime ministerial candidate from being renominated.

Thailand has been under a caretaker government for five months and its biggest parties in parliament have been unable to form a government after Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of the anti-establishment Move Forward party, was rejected as premier by lawmakers allied with the royalist military. "Their rights were not violated and they did not have the rights to file the complaint," it said of the petitioners, in what was a unanimous decision.

 

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