BANGKOK: Thailand’s annual budget faces a further delay after an irregularity emerged in the parliamentary vote that was supposed to approve it, signaling yet another obstacle for a struggling economy.
The Constitutional Court will now assess whether the vote in the lower chamber was valid following a request for a ruling from 90 lawmakers, Government Chief Whip Wirat Rattanaset said at a briefing Wednesday in Bangkok.
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