Protesters in Bangkok demand resignation of prime minister over leaked phone call | Thailand
Thousands of protesters met in Bangkok to demand the resignation of the Thai Prime Minister through a leaked telephone conversation with a former Cambodian leader.
Paetongarn Shinawatra faced increasing pressure on the border dispute with neighbor Cambodia, which flames in May when the Cambodian troops were killed during a short fire exchange.
The government was thrown into the crisis after a telephone conversation in which former Cambodian leader Hun Sen discussed the issue in which he was opened to the public at the beginning of this month.
In the record, it can be heard that he criticized a senior Thai military officer and discussed Hun Sen as a “uncle ,, if there is anything, he promised that he would“ take care of him ”.
Telephone conversation, Hun Sen with Kowtowing. He infuriated the Thai nationalists who accused him.
The protesters gathered on Saturday shook the Thailand flags and used the prime minister’s pseudonym “Ungg, get out”. Some of them hired signs that accuse him of betraying the nation – he calls him “treacherous PM” and “pm sell ..
Police predicted that 6,000 people had emerged in the afternoon, but Bangkok Post reported that the crowd would exceed 10,000 until Saturday evening and that the ruling Pheu Thai party has made the biggest rally since its arrival in 2023.
Jade Donavanik, a legal science that appeals to the crowds, said, “We do not come together to create problems here,” he said.
“Here we are united with the power of nature to protect our national and regional integrity, to protect our sovereignty and to correct the country.
Many of those gathered in the protest are associated with the movements opposed to the father of Paetongtarn’s father, Thaksin Shinawatra, and aunt Yingluck, who was dismissed by a court decision in the 2006 coup, was a coup in 2014.
United Force of the Land, a protest organizer on Saturday, nationalist activists, asked all parties to withdraw from the coalition of Paetongarn. At the beginning of this month, a coalition partner refers to the leaked telephone conversation and left a thin majority.
Paetongarn faces judicial threats after the petitions have been opened by blaming him of ethical violations and violating the constitution in relation to the leaked call.
The Constitutional Court will be gathered on Tuesday to decide whether to accept a case that requesting it to be dismissed and will suspend the issue while addressing the issue. One last decision will probably take months.
Paetongarn apologized for his phone call, but he did little to stop this criticism.
The regional dispute between Thailand and Cambodia is based on more than a century until the time when France first mapped the land border of France, which occupied Cambodia until 1953. The incident led to an increase in nationalist emotions and the actions of both governments for taste.
Hun Sen said on Saturday that the border action by the Thai army was a serious violation of the sovereignty and regional integrity of Cambodia.
“This poor Cambodia’s foreign invasion, war and genocide suffered, surrounded in the past, wasolated and insulted in the past, but now Cambodia has risen on an equal face with other countries,” he said.
Hun Sen, who ruled Cambodia for almost forty years, gave his son strength in 2023, but remained strong in the country.
