The week that shook Thai politics – and what comes next

A puppet-master in exile and a princess stopped from running for prime minister throw hopes of a return to democracy into doubt

It was last Monday that the incendiary whispers first began.

Over the following four days, politicians, foreign embassy officials, journalists and political observers gradually caught wind that a candidate for prime minister would be put forward to run in the elections in March who would turn the political landscape on its head.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2BFOIun