By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT may either practically force Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to stop running the country from early next month or simply drop charges filed against her to the extent that she has severely compromised ethics and honesty whilst handling Thai-Cambodian border conflict.
The Constitutional Court is scheduled for July 8 to consider whether an immediate suspension of Paetongtarn’s executive duties should be ordered by court as formally petitioned by a group of senators, pending a judicial ruling over the allegations that the woman prime minister has evidently perpetrated severe misconduct pertaining to Thai-Cambodian border tensions.
The daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra is heard in a widely-exposed audio clip offering to do whatever her former Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen may have wanted in a desperate effort to personally satisfy him and settle the border dispute and even branded Thailand’s Second Army Area Commander Lt. Gen. Boonsin Padklang “one of those on the opposite side” during June 15’s exposed telephone conversation between herself and Hun Sen, father of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet.
Such slip of the tongue on the part of the immature Paetongtarn had exponentially raised vehement criticism among the Thai public with many viewing the Thai prime minister as utterly dimwitted and overly submissive to the Cambodians as well as considerably detrimental to Thailand’s territorial integrity, interests and national prestige, thus prompting those senators, mostly stalwart and supportive to the former coalition partner Bhumjaithai, to insist that the Constitutional Court immediately suspend her from performing the executive duties and subsequently deprive her of the elected premiership.
Despite persistent calls of those people for her to either step down or dissolve the House of Representatives to return power to the people by way of a general election, Thaksin’s daughter-turned-prime minister has apparently remained undaunted and proceeded with a new cabinet lineup arranged by her mega-billionaire/power-playing father, following a withdrawal of the ultra-conservative Bhumjaithai under de facto party boss Newin Chidchob from the coalition government led by Thaksin’s neo-conservative camp.
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