Thai Court Removes PM Paetongtarn Shinawatra Over Ethics Violation

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Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been removed from office after Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled she violated ethics in a leaked phone call with Cambodia’s former leader Hun Sen. The call took place during a time of border tensions between the two countries.

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00:00Thai Prime Minister Pei Tongtan Shinawot has been removed from office for an ethics violation.

00:07Thailand's Constitutional Court ruled that she violated the country's ethical standards in a leaked phone call

00:14where she was seen as kowtowing to Cambodia's former leader Hun Sen.

00:19The two countries were locked in a border dispute at the time, which later flared into open fighting.

00:24A member of the powerful Shinawot family, Pei Tongtan is the sixth Prime Minister in less than two decades to be removed.

00:32She was in office for less than a year.

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