BANGKOK: Thailand's Election Commission recommended Wednesday that the Constitutional Court suspend prime minister frontrunner Pita Limjaroenrat over allegations he broke campaign rules as an MP, just a day before a parliamentary vote for the premiership.

Pita's progressive Move Forward Party (MFP) won the most seats at May's election, with voters delivering a crushing rejection of the army-linked parties that ran the kingdom for nearly a decade.

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