Bangkok: Thailand’s king issued a cryptic statement hours before polls open for the country’s first general election since a 2014 coup, quoting his late father’s advice to support “good” leaders to prevent “chaos”.
King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s last-minute intervention comes less than two months after another royal command torpedoed the candidacy of his elder sister Princess Ubolratana for prime minister of a party linked to billionaire ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
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