BANGKOK: Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha can keep his job and did not violate a constitutional provision limiting him to eight years in office.

Opposition lawmakers had petitioned the tribunal to decide on their contention that Prayuth, who took power as army commander in a 2014 coup, had violated the eight-year limit for prime ministers that was included for the first time in Thailand's 2017 Constitution.

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