Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha may have cleared the tenure obstacle after winning the Constitutional Court's judgement to stay on as prime minister. However, the road ahead may be long and challenging.
Before the court issued its landmark ruling on Sept 30, speculation was already rife that Gen Prayut may be walking into the sunset, even if he was given a new lease on political life.
Now that the ruling has come, and after he was forced to step aside for a month as the court deliberated, Gen Prayut is back sitting comfortably in the prime minister's seat until the current parliament term expires in March and seeking to return to serve what remains of his eight-year premiership.
