Rama IX ‘exercised power within limits’

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Rama IX ‘exercised power within limits’

By KASAMAKORN CHANWANPEN 
THE SUNDAY NATION 

 

A large photo of the historic meeting in 1992 between King Bhumibol Adulyadej and rival political leaders of the time, Chamlong Srimuang and General Suchinda Kraprayoon, is displayed during yesterday’s panel discussion on “King Rama IX and Democracy”

 

THE late King Bhumibol Adulyadej remained a constitutional monarch despite doubts about his role in the appointment of “royally appointed” prime ministers, a public lecture on the late King and democracy has heard.

 

The controversial appointment of outsider premiers such as Sanya Dharmasakti and Anand Panyarachun was constitutional and the late King had not exercised his power arbitrarily, law professor Parinya Thaewanarumitkul said yesterday.

 

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