Bangkok - Thailand's Constitutional Court voted yesterday in a knife-edge decision to clear the Prime Minister, Mr Thaksin Shinawatra, of graft charges, ending months of damaging uncertainty and letting him stay in power.
Court President Prasert Nasakul said that judges, by eight votes to seven, had found Mr Thaksin not guilty of deliberately concealing assets in the 1990s when he was a cabinet minister.
An emotional Mr Thaksin told reporters outside his office building that the ruling cleared the way for him to work full-out to solve the country's pressing economic problems.