Thai court set to rule on validity of April 2 pollSun May 7, 2006 04:04 AM ET
By Ed Cropley
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Constitutional Court is expected to nullify the inconclusive April 2 general election on Monday, a move which might make the country's constitutional crisis more, rather than less, messy, newspapers said.
Quoting a source close to the court's deliberations, the English-language Nation paper said this weekend eight or nine of the 14 judges were likely to vote to scrap the poll, which left Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra unable to form a government.
The court decides on the basis of a simple majority.
However, it remains unclear what will happen in the event of the election being scrapped since such a decision would push Thailand even further into uncharted constitutional waters.
Another election looks certain at some stage, and the opposition Democrat party, which boycotted the April poll saying it was not fair, said it would participate in a re-run after a rare intervention by King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
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