BANGKOK: A Thai princess has apologized after her short-lived candidacy for prime minister earned a royal rebuke from her brother — the king — and sent jitters across the politically febrile country just weeks before elections.

Meanwhile, Thailand’s Election Commission said Wednesday it would ask the constitutional court to dissolve the party that put forward a princess as a prime ministerial candidate, days after the king rebuked the move in a stern royal command.

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