friday's announcement sets up another battle between thailand's military and the powerful shinawatra denah city the political force behind the nomination. the power struggle between shinawatra is populous redshirt movement and the military backed royalist an urban elite has marred thailand with more than a decade of violence political instability and division a role candidate in the shinawatra camp could send a shockwave through those loyalties. the princess's my opponent would be the leader of the military junta prime minister. he also announced his candidacy on friday. so thailand effectively enters unchartered waters. caught up with political analysts. in bangkok. this is the first time since thailand became of constitutional monarchy eighty six years ago that a close member of the royal family runs for political office what do you make of that. i think that people today are still. shocked and digesting about the announcement that the princess the only elder sister of his majesty the king has joined one political party as a contender for the prime ministership this is something that we'