Media reported that the Election Commission (EC) recommended on Tuesday afternoon that the Thai Raksa Chart (TRC) Party be dissolved for allegedly drawing the monarchy into politics, but at 6pm the EC president told the Bangkok Post that the decision was yet to be finalised.

Discussions will continue Wednesday on whether to punish TRC and if so, just how. The strongest punishment allowed by the EC is to recommend to the Constitutional Court that the party will face dissolution.

Earlier Tuesday, media reports said the EC had voted to ask the Constitutional Court to disband the party for committing an act deemed hostile to the system of constitutional monarchy by nominating Princess Ubolratana as its candidate for prime minister.

The offence falls under the 2018 Political Parties Act, and the EC decision would be sent to the Constitutional Court.

Princess Ubolratana issued her first comment on the controversy Tuesday night in an Instagram post.

A one-sentence post by the Princess, whose online name is "nichax," said she was sorry that her intention to help the country had not worked out.

"I'm sorry that the sincere intention to work to help the country and our Thai people had caused problems that had seemed unlikely to occur in this day and age," read the post.

It was followed by the hashtag, in English, #howcomeitsthewayitis.