The winner of Thailand’s general election has been suspended from parliament just hours before an expected vote on whether he becomes prime minister.
In a dramatically timed decision, Thailand’s constitutional court accepted a case relating to shares Pita Limjaroenrat allegedly owns in a television broadcaster, and suspended him for 15 days pending a ruling.
It marks the latest escalation in an increasingly tense stand-off between the clear winners of May’s general election — Pita and his Move Forward party — and a conservative establishment of generals, oligarchs and royal officials determined to keep him out of power.
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