By Thai Newsroom Reporters
AN URGENT IMPEACHMENT motion was today (June 19) filed against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra by senators in pursuit of an immediate ouster of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra’s daughter as head of government in the wake of her disreputable, submissive manners which she has evidently displayed during a private telephone talk with former Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen.
More than one-third of the total 200 senators have already undersigned the impeachment motion which will be delivered to the Constitutional Court in pursuit of an immediate suspension to the woman prime minister’s executive duties and the terminal ouster as head of the Pheu Thai-led coalition government following the exposure of an audio clip in which Paetongtarn had ostensibly expressed her manners of speech deemed as overly submissive to the other end of the telephone line and unduly compromising Thailand’s interests, prestige and honour in the eye of Hun Sen, father of current Cambodian prime minister Hun Manet, pertaining to unresolved tensions along the Thai-Cambodian border.
Paetongtarn has evidently betrayed trust of the Thai people whilst poorly handling such a significant national issue as the sustained Thai-Cambodian border conflict, thus being no longer fit or proper to continue to run the country, according to the senators whose unprecedented, concerted move against the prime minister had been initiated by Senate Committee on Defence Affairs Chair Sawat Tassana.
At one instant during a 17-minute private, now-exposed telephone chat via a translator, Paetongtarn branded Thailand’s Second Army Area commander Lt. Gen. Boonsin Padklang as “one of those on the opposite side.” She called Hun Sen “uncle” and asked him to tell her straightforwardly what she could possibly do to satisfy him. The Shinawatra and Hun Sen families have fostered close, personal relationships highlighted with last year’s event in which Hun Sen was the first visitor to Thaksin at the latter’s residence in Bangkok a few days after he had been released on parole from Police Hospital where he had allegedly staged a six-month fake-out as a “critically ill” convict to avoid being literally put behind bars at Bangkok Remand prison.
Meanwhile, Paetongtarn held a press conference at Government House to apologise to the Thai people in regard to the exposed audio clip in which she may have evidently shaken their confidence in her handling the Thai-Cambodian tensions. She pledged to be more careful about her words than ever whilst dealing with the Cambodians.
Some critics and members of the public called on Paetongtarn to step down in the face of her alleged betrayal to Thailand and being overly naive and submissive to Cambodia whilst others advised that she dissolve the House of Representatives to return power to the people by way of a general election for MPs in a 60-day time as provided by law.
The Bhumjaithai under de facto party boss Newin Chidchob has cited the disreputable content of the exposed talk between Paetongtarn and Hun Sen as a catalyst for the ultra-conservative party to pull out of the Pheu Thai-led government effective today.
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Top: An image of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra overlaid on Parliament meeting chamber. Photo: Amarin TV
Front Page: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra apologising to the people at a press conference today, June 19, 2025. Photo: Amarin TV
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