Thai PM Prayut to stop duties while awaiting court verdict on eight-year term limit: Reports

(FILES) In this file photo taken on August 17, 2022, Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha addresses an award function in Bangkok. - A legal showdown that could oust embattled Thai Prime Minister Prayut Cha-O-Cha reaches the country's constitutional court this week, threatening fresh political turmoil for the kingdom just months before national elections. Opponents of Prayut are agitating for his removal under rules limiting a PM to a maximum of eight years in office, a threshold they say he will reach on August 24, 2022. (Photo by Manan VATSYAYANA / AFP)

BANGKOK (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Thailand's constitutional court on Wednesday (Aug 24) ordered Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha (pic) to halt his official duties pending the result of a legal review of his eight-year term limit, local media reported.

The reports by local news outlets including ThaiPBS, Bangkok Post, Khaosod and Workpoint did not cite sources.