Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 1 ga Disamba, 2016 Shugaban Majalisar Dokoki ya gayyaci Yarima Vajiralongkorn ya hau gadon sarauta a matsayin sarki. Daga baya wannan daren Firayim Minista Prayuth Chan-ocha ya ce a cikin wata sanarwa da aka watsa ta talabijin cewa nadin sarautar zai "zama a cikin [sarkin] hankali" kuma ba zai faru ba har sai bayan 26 ga Oktoba, 2017, lokacin da aka shirya jana'izar mahaifinsa. Ga yawancin mutanen Thai, shi ne na farko da aka naɗa sarki. An yi tsammanin ranar da za a yi nadin sarautar sarki zai nuna alamun ci gaba da siyasa bayan tsawon shekara guda na zaman makoki ga Sarki Rama IX, tare da zaben da zai biyo baya ba da daɗewa ba. Ranar da za a gudanar da babban zabe, wanda gwamnatin mulkin mallaka, Majalisar Kasa don Zaman Lafiya da Tsarin Mulki (wanda ya karbi mulki ta hanyar juyin mulki a shekarar 2014
), wanda aka yi alkawarinsa a cikin "taswirar hanya" zuwa mulkin farar hula za a jinkirta har sai bayan bikin nadin sarauta ya kamata ya faru. Koyaya, wasu sun nuna shakku game da wannan lokacin kuma wasu sun soki yadda gwamnati ke amfani da nadin sarautar a matsayin kayan aiki don jinkirta zaben, wanda da farko ya kamata ya faru a shekarar 2016. A cikin shekarar 2018 kungiyoyi daban-daban sun gudanar da zanga-zangar adawa da gwamnati da dama suna neman a gudanar da zabe da wuri-wuri, saboda gwamnati ba ta sanya ranar da za a yi nadin sarauta ba, sannan kuma, zaben.