00:00Thailand's Constitutional Court dismissed Prime Minister Peh Tongtan Shinawatt from office for an ethics violation after only a year in power.
00:08Peh Tongtan, who is Thailand's youngest Prime Minister, becomes the sixth premier from or backed by the billionaire Shinawatt family to be removed by the military or judiciary.
00:19The court said Peh Tongtan violated ethics in a leaked June telephone call, during which he appeared to kowtow to Cambodia's former leader Hun Sen when both countries were at the brink of an armed border conflict.
00:32Fighting erupted weeks later and lasted five days.
00:35The decision paves the way for the election by parliament of a new Prime Minister, a process that could be drawn out, with Peh Tongtan's ruling Putai party losing bargaining power and facing a challenge to shore up a fragile alliance with a razor-thin majority.
00:51The ruling brings a premature end to the premiership of the daughter and protege of influential tycoon Takshin Shinawatt.
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