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# Thai Political Party Upsets Tradition by Nominating Princess as Prime Minister Pick

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_Published 2019-02-08. A Thai political party on Friday named a princess as its nominee to be the next prime minister, upending tradition that the royal palace plays no public role in politics and upsetting all predictions about what may happen in next month’s election._


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## Transcript

In the executive board meeting we have discussed about the name you know complying with the law. And one of the member have proposed her name and we all agree that this is the most appropriate name to be in the PM candidate list for Thai Raksa Chart. We I think that we all come by the rules okay. Everything we do is Complying with the law and Constitution. So it all depends on the people of this country. There is no one have the privilege or exclusive rights or anything.

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