The Latest Breaking News from Constitutional Court

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam on Monday challenged those who believe the eight-year limit on Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha's premiership should expire this month to seek a Constitutional Court ruling on the matter.

The post-censure debate period may pose less of a hassle for the government, with the growing prospect of a return to power of the current coalition parties after the next election, say political scientists.

The Pheu Thai Party has threatened to seek a Constitutional Court ruling as parliament votes in support of a method using 500 to calculate party-list seats.

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: The Supreme Court has upheld a two-year prison sentence and 10-year election ban for former Democrat MP Thepthai Senpong and his younger brother Manote Senpong, for vote buying during a 2014 local government election.

South Africa’s Constitutional Court has decided to strike down the government’s plans to end old-style analogue television broadcasting at the end of June. The decision upholds the right to information, which poor South Africans would have been denied as government has been slow to roll out the devices they need…

A new version of the legislation could be passed next month, but the government has shared little about the changes.

Two southern African countries, South Africa and Eswatini, are undergoing important reforms. South Africa is reviewing its electoral system while Eswatini is revisiting the powers of the monarch through a national dialogue.

South Africa is amending its electoral law to make it fairer by enabling citizens to contest provincial and national elections without being forced to join political parties.

In any respectable democratic system, a winning poll candidate who secured an overall majority of electoral support would take office with the earliest effect. Not in Thailand. When Chadchart Sittipunt trounced 29 rivals by gathering 1.38 million or 51% of the votes cast in Bangkok's gubernatorial election on May 22,…