BANGKOK (Reuters) - The sister of Thailand’s king said on Friday she was exercising her rights as a citizen in accepting a political party’s nomination for prime minister in a March general election.
“I have relinquished my royal titles and lived as a commoner,” Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi, 67, said in a post on her Instagram account.
“I have accepted the Thai Raksa Chart Party nomination for prime minister to show my rights and freedom without any privileges above other fellow Thai citizens under the constitution,” she said.
Reporting by Panu Wongcha-um; Editing by Robert Birsel
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