Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Friday he had prepared a decree seeking to dissolve parliament ahead of an election, an expected step as his government heads into the last week of its four-year term.
The decree would require approval of Thailand's monarch and would take effect once published in the Royal Gazette. An election must take place 45-60 days after dissolution.
"I have prepared , we have to wait. We have to wait for the announcement in the Royal Gazette," Prayuth told reporters in the northern city of Chiang Mai.The election will again pit the billionaire Shinawatra family against parties backed by the royalist military and old money conservatives, in what has been a bitter, 18-year power struggle in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy.
Prayuth, a retired general who has been in charge since leading a coup against the government of Yingluck Shinawatra in 2014, will run under the new
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