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Prayut remains PM, court rules tenure ends in 2025

Constitutional Court judges assemble to give their ruling on the 8-year tenure of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Friday afternoon. (Screenshot)

The Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's tenure has not reached its eight-year limit under the current constitution and that his term started on April 6, 2017, when the present charter took effect.

The court began reading its ruling at 3pm. It took about 20 minutes.

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