Overview

• A 17-minute June 15 phone call with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen saw Paetongtarn Shinawatra call him “uncle” and dismiss a senior Thai general as an “opponent,” triggering widespread outrage.
• On June 18 the Bhumjaithai Party withdrew its support, reducing the ruling coalition to a precarious 255-seat majority in the 500-member House of Representatives.
• The United Thai Nation Party has warned it will pull out unless the prime minister resigns, further isolating her administration.
• Thai senators filed petitions with the Constitutional Court and the National Anti-Corruption Commission to remove Paetongtarn from office over her comments in the leaked audio.
• Paetongtarn traveled to a frontline army base near the Cambodian border in a show of military support as street protests demanding her ouster continued.