Thai Pm Dismissed By Court Over Phone Leak Case
Phaitungtarn Shinawatra is the fifth Thai prime minister to be dismissed by the Constitutional Court in the last 17 years
BANGKOK: Thailand’s Constitutional Court has dismissed Prime Minister Paitungtarn Shinawatra from office on the grounds of violating rules in the telephone leak case.
According to a foreign news agency report, Paitungtarn Shinawatra was the sixth prime minister from a billionaire family in Thailand and the youngest in the country’s history, but she was dismissed by the Constitutional Court over the phone leak case.
The court said that Paitungtarn Shinawatra violated ethics in a phone call that was leaked in June and appeared to be in awe of Cambodia’s powerful Prime Minister Hun Sen when the two countries were embroiled in armed clashes.
The ruling by Thailand’s Constitutional Court has left the ruling Pheu Thai Party in a weakened position and paved the way for new elections in the country.
With the court’s decision, the former coalition partner Bhumibol Adulyadej, which broke away from the ruling coalition immediately after the phone leak, has emerged to form a new government, and its leader, Anutan Charnvirakul, has started efforts to gain support from other parties and is promising to dissolve parliament within 4 months.
On the other hand, the dismissed Prime Minister Paithongtharun called on all parties to work together to bring political stability to Thailand.
She said that she wanted to protect the lives of citizens, whether they were soldiers or civilians, and she was determined to do everything possible to protect them before the war started.
Paithongtharun is the fifth prime minister of Thailand to be dismissed by the Constitutional Court in the past 17 years, a move that is a manifestation of the conflict between the governments of the Shinawatra family and the alliance of powerful conservatives and generals loyal to the royal family.
In Thailand, current Deputy Prime Minister Phutthami Wichayachai will be in charge of the interim government until a new prime minister is elected, and a special session of parliament has been called for this from September 3 to September 5, but nothing has been said about the election of a new prime minister.
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