By Thai Newsroom Reporters
FORMER ARMY CHIEF/FORMER prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has been named a privy councillor after nine years of running the country.
The royal gazette yesterday declared His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn has appointed Prayut as the latest member of the Privy Council headed by one of his predecessors, namely Surayud Chulanont.
Prayut has earlier claimed to give up on politics and called it quits as member of the Ruam Thai Sang Chart following last May’s election in which he had contested in vain to prolong his rule.
Nevertheless, the ultra conservative party is currently one of the Pheu Thai-led coalition partners under the hush-hush influence of the “sickly” de facto Pheu Thai boss/convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra.
Prayut orchestrated the 2014 coup as army chief to oust an elected government under deposed prime minister/Thaksin’s sister Yingluck Shinawatra, then named himself head of a military-installed government and finally became head of a Palang Pracharath-led coalition government following the 2019 election.
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Former prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. Top photo: Matichon, Front Page photo: Thai Rath
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