Overview

• The entire cabinet must resign but will continue in a caretaker role until a new government is formed.
• Interim leader Phumtham Wechayachai will handle government duties until parliament selects a successor.
• Judges acted after a petition from 36 senators and a leaked audio in which Paetongtarn called a senior military officer her “opponent” and addressed Hun Sen as “uncle.”
• Large protests in Bangkok preceded her July suspension, and the Bhumjaithai Party’s exit from the coalition weakened the government’s majority.
• The case unfolded against the backdrop of Thai‑Cambodian border flare‑ups that later led to a Malaysia-brokered ceasefire, and the court has now unseated five prime ministers in 17 years.