Thai princess says exercising her right as a citizen to go into politics


  • World
  • Friday, 08 Feb 2019

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The sister of Thailand's king said on Friday she was exercising her rights as a citizen in accepting a political party's nomination for prime minister in a March general election.

"I have relinquished my royal titles and lived as a commoner," Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi, 67, said in a post on her Instagram account.

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