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Silently complicit in a far-fetched ruling

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha gestures as he arrives for a photo with members of his cabinet at Government House on July 16, 2019. AFP

The Constitutional Court's ruling that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's eight-year term in office did not expire on Aug 24 and that he can stay on is far-fetched.

It is contrary to a glaring fact that is well known to most of us. But that is the way the law of the land, be it the constitution or other laws, works and is interpreted.

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