The Thai Raksa Chart Party on Feb. 8 nominated Princess Ubolratana Mahidol as its candidate for the March 24 polls. However, her brother King Maha Vajiralongkorn later that day issued a royal order calling the nomination highly inappropriate and unconstitutional.
Thai Raksa Chart is aligned with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose allied parties have won every national election since 2001 but have twice been toppled in coups. The latest election is being held under rules that are generally acknowledged to make it hard for pro-Thaksin parties to win a majority, and the dissolution of Thai Raksa Chart will make that all the more difficult.
It voted unanimously to dissolve the party, and by a vote of 6-3 for the political ban on its executive members. Ubolratana's registration as a candidate was a stunning move, not only because it would have broken a taboo on a senior royal running for public office, but also because it would have allied her with a party considered by many royalists to be unsympathetic to the monarchy.
One of the new laws passed under military rule allows a prime minister who is not a lawmaker to rise to the top post in a vote by the upper and lower house. The upper house is entirely appointed by the ruling junta.
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