Thai minister keeps post despite drug conviction © Reuters A court rejected an opposition bid to disqualify Thammanat Prompao over his conviction
Thailand s top court has allowed a government minister to keep his job, dismissing a bid to disqualify him over a past conviction for drug trafficking in Australia.
Thammanat Prompao was jailed for four years in 1994 for his role in a heroin smuggling case.
Opposition politicians urged Thailand s constitutional court to declare the minister unfit for office .
But in a ruling on Wednesday, the court rejected the complaint.
The court said it did not recognise Mr Thammanat s conviction because the verdict was delivered in Australia, a foreign country.
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