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By Prashanth Parameswaran
Prayuth hits out at a popular fortune-teller following a controversial prediction.
Thai junta leader and prime minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha has asked a popular fortune-teller in the country to stop reading his future after a recent prediction about the length of his term in office sparked controversy.
According to the Thai newspaper The Nation, Warin Buawiratlert, one of the Thailand’s most influential astrologers who has known Prayuth for years, said over the weekend that he saw the junta chief running the country for three more years without any hostile movements or undercurrents “because the country’s star is not ominous.”
That prediction caused a stir when deputy government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said in response that the Prayuth administration may stick around longer than planned depending on the situation in the country. As The Diplomat had reported previously (see here and here), the ruling junta had earlier pledged to hold polls around October 2015 but has repeatedly pushed that date back to sometime in 2016, with some observers expressing doubts about whether this might even run into 2017.
Read the full story at The Diplomat