Bangkok, Thailand – Thailand’s Constitutional Court is set to decide whether to remove suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office over a controversial phone call with Cambodia’s former leader, in a ruling that could deal a further blow to the embattled Shinawatra dynasty and plunge the Southeast Asian kingdom into fresh political turmoil.
An unfavourable verdict for Paetongtarn on Friday would make her the fifth prime minister since 2008 to be stripped of office by Thailand’s judges, who critics say defend the interests of the country’s royalist-military establishment.
