- Title: Thai capital braces for protests over PM's term limit
- Date: 23rd August 2022
- Summary: BANGKOK, THAILAND (AUGUST 23, 2022) (REUTERS) EMPTY ROADS OUTSIDE THAI GOVERNMENT HOUSE THAI FLAG FLYING VEHICLE APPROACHING POLICE ROAD BLOCK POLICE STANDING BEHIND FENCES AT ROAD BLOCK AND REDIRECTING TRAFFIC VARIOUS OF POLICE STANDING NEAR LARGE CONTAINERS BLOCKING ROAD LEADING TO GOVERNMENT HOUSE VEHICLES VEERING AWAY FROM CLOSED ROAD, POLICE STANDING NEAR LARGE CONTAINERS LOCKED GATE VARIOUS OF GATES CLOSED AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE VARIOUS OF THAI PRIME MINISTER PRAYUTH CHAN-OCHA (IN BLUE SHIRT) WALKING INTO GOVERNMENT HOUSE BUILDING VARIOUS OF SECURITY STANDING AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE THAI FLAG MOTORCADE OF DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER PRAWIT WONGSUWAN APPROACHING VARIOUS OF PRAWIT WALKING INTO GOVERNMENT HOUSE RIOT POLICE OFFICER STANDING BY SECURITY STANDING OUTSIDE BUILDING AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE VARIOUS OF DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ANUTIN CHARNVIRAKUL (RIGHT, IN BLUE SHIRT), HIS ENTOURAGE AND MINISTERS FROM HIS BHUMJAITHAI PARTY ARRIVING
- Embargoed: 6th September 2022 06:22
- Keywords: Prayuth Chan-ocha Thai Thailand court government limit politics power protest term
- Location: BANGKOK, THAILAND
- City: BANGKOK, THAILAND
- Country: Thailand
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001002023082022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Thai authorities ramped up security in the capital on Tuesday (August 23) ahead of protests calling on the prime minister to resign, as a court considers whether to take up a petition to rule on when his constitutionally stipulated eight-year term is up.
Police cordoned off areas around the prime minister's offices, known as Government House, in central Bangkok, setting up barricades, including shipping containers, and diverting traffic.
The main opposition party, and nearly two-thirds of Thais questioned in an opinion poll, believe Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, who took power in a 2014 coup, should step down by Aug. 24 because his time as junta chief counts towards his term.
Prayuth, 68, was army chief when he mounted a coup in 2014 to overthrow an elected government.
He became a civilian prime minister in 2019 after an election held under a military-drafted constitution.
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