The Constitutional Court Ruling on Prayuth’s Eight Years as Prime Minister

Authors

  • Tyrell Haberkorn University of Wisconsin–Madison

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54157/tls.264148

Keywords:

Prayuth Chan-ocha, Constitutional court, Term limit, Prime minister

Abstract

This is a translation of Constitutional Court Ruling No. 14/2565, which addresses the constitutionality of General Prayuth Chan-ocha's eight years as prime minister, under the 2017 Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand.

References

Khemthong Tongsakulrungruang. “The Constitutional Court of Thailand: From Activism to Arbitrariness.” In Albert H. Y. Chen and Andrew Harding (eds), Constitutional Courts in Asia: A Comparative Analysis (Cambridge University Press 2018).

Harding, Andrew, and Peter Leyland. The Constitutional System of Thailand: A Contextual Analysis (Bloomsbury 2011).

McCargo, Duncan. Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand (Cornell University Press 2020). https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801449994.001.0001

Mérieau, Eugénie. “Thailand’s Deep State, Royal Power and the Constitutional Court (1997–2015).” (2016) 46(1) Journal of Contemporary Asia 445–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2016.1151917

Thongchai Winichakul. Thailand’s Hyper-royalism: Its Past Success and Present Predicament. ISEAS Trends in Southeast Asia, no. 7 (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2016). https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814762380

Downloads

Published

2 March 2023