{"id":28207,"date":"2024-08-14T05:56:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T09:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=28207"},"modified":"2024-08-14T05:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T09:56:40","slug":"thai-court-dismisses-pm-for-violating-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2024\/08\/14\/thai-court-dismisses-pm-for-violating-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai court dismisses PM for violating constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Thai court has dismissed Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin for appointing to his cabinet a former lawyer who was once jailed.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Constitutional Court ruled that Mr Srettha had violated the “rules on ethics” with “the display of defiant behaviour”.<\/p>\n

The 67-year-old Srettha, who has been in power for less than a year, is the third PM in 16 years to be removed by the same court.<\/p>\n

He will be replaced by an interim leader until Thailand’s parliament convenes to elect a new prime minister.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m confident in my honesty \u2026 I feel sorry, but I\u2019m not saying I disagree with the ruling,” he said at a press conference shortly after the ruling.<\/p>\n

The verdict signals more political uncertainty for a country that has seen multiple coups, the last being in 2014 when the military seized power.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the court voted five to four to remove Mr Srettha from office. The court’s ruling is final and cannot be appealed.<\/p>\n

Earlier this May, the court had accepted a petition filed by some 40 senators asking to remove the PM from his position over his appointment of Pichit Chuenban – who was previously sentenced to six months in jail for attempted bribery.<\/p>\n

Mr Sretta became prime minister despite his Pheu Thai party not emerging as the biggest winner in last year’s election, which ended nine years of military rule in Thailand.<\/p>\n

Voters delivered a stunning vcitory to the young, reformist Move Forward party, but it was blocked from forming the government by the military-appointed senate.<\/p>\n

Pheu Thai then struck a deal with other army-backed parties to form a ruling coalition, freezing out Move Forward – and Mr Srettha found himself at the helm.<\/p>\n

This is the latest in a series of recent high-profile rulings by the court.<\/p>\n

Last week it\u00a0dissolved the Move Forward party\u00a0<\/a>for making unconstitutional campaign promises and banned party leaders – 11 MPs – from politics for10 years.<\/p>\n

Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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