“We were informed by a privy councillor that the Privy Council was not happy to be protected, so we decided to withdraw them for now,” Pornpetch, who is also a member of parliament and the chief sponsor of the amendment, told Reuters. The amendments would have expanded lese majeste to include children of the monarch as well as privy councillors.

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