How leaked telephone calls derail the career of Thai PM

The Thai Constitutional Court strikes again and removed another prime minister from the office.

The infamous arbitration panel of the country, consisting of nine appointed judges, ruled that Paetongtarn Shinawatra violated the ethical standard with a phone call with a veteran Cambodian leader in June.

As a result, Paetongtarn was able to reconcile Hun Sen about the state’s border disputes and criticize one of his military commander.

She defended the conversation and said she tried to create diplomatic innovation with Hun Sen, an old friend of her father Thaksin Shinawatra, and said that the conversation should remain confidential.

The leak was damaged and embarrassed by her and her dodge Thai party. Her largest combined partner left the government and left her to resign in most.

In July, seven of the nine judges in the court decided to stop Paetongtarn, which suggested that it would suffer the same fate as four predecessors. So Friday’s decision was not surprising.

PAETONGTARN is the fifth Thai Prime Minister removed from the office by this court, and all of the fathers come from the administration.

This raised extensive faith in Thailand. Thailand has almost always raised the rules for those who are always considered a threat by conservative royal forces.

The court also banned 112 political parties, a small number of them, but advanced the reformist movement that won the last election in 2023, including the previous incarnation of Thaksin’s Pheu Thai Party.

In other countries, there is little political life with a strict police officer by a branch of the judiciary.

In this case, it was a leaked telephone conversation that sealed the fate of PateTarn.

It is not clear why Hun Sen chose to carry friendship with the Shinawatra family. He called Paetongtarn the use of Cambodian leadership’s social media as “non -literary”.

He described it as “unprecedented insults,” and said that “the truth was exposed.”

However, his decision caused a political crisis in Thailand, causing tension on the border, exploding into a five -day war when more than 40 people died last month.

The Thai Constitution now requires lawmakers to choose a new prime minister from a very limited list.

Each party had to nominate three candidates before the last election, and Pheu Thai used two people last year after the court dismissed Settha Thavisin.

Their third candidate, Chaikasem Nitisiri, is a former pastor and an honest person of the party, but there is little public profile and is not good. The alternative is AnUTIN CHARNVIRAKUL, a former minister of internal affairs from the ruling alliance through the leaked telephone call by the BHUMJAITHAI Party.

The relationship between the two parties is now tense, and AnUTIN is not a recipe for stability by relying on Pheu Thai with more seats.

The 143 MPs, who were the largest political parties in the parliament, and previously detoxified development, vowed to maintain opposition until the new elections were held, not to join the coalition.

The new elections seem to be an obvious way to get out of the current political confusion, but Pheu Thai does not want it. For two years, I could not meet the promise to revive the economy in the office.

For all of her young people, an unexpected Paetongtarn did not establish a true authority to this country.

But Thaksin Shinawatra seems to have lost his magic hand. In the final election, Pheu Thai Party’s signature policy was widely criticized for being a digital wallet that would have a B10,000 ($ 308; £ 178) in all Thai adult pockets.

Other Grand plans to legalize casinos and build “Land Bridge”, which connect India and the Pacific Ocean, have not been anywhere else.

When the Thai nationalism sentiment was fired through the border war with Cambodia, the long stand of the Sina and Tra family raised doubts about conservative circles due to friendship with Hun Sen.

The party’s popularity has plunged and will lose 140 seats in the current election.

For more than 20 years, the dominance of Thai politics was an unmatched election for another.

It is difficult to know how it will regain its dominance.