{"id":100600,"date":"2025-08-29T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/100600\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T10:54:07","slug":"paetongtarn-shinawatra-thai-pm-removed-from-office-over-leaked-phone-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/100600\/","title":{"rendered":"Paetongtarn Shinawatra: Thai PM removed from office over leaked phone call"},"content":{"rendered":"

How a leaked phone call led to a PM’s suspensionpublished at 08:32 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

08:32 BST<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Paetongtarn was suspended in July over a leaked phone conversation with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen as tensions flared at the border of the two countries.<\/p>\n

The clip, in which Paetongtarn called him “uncle” and promised to “take care” of his needs, sparked public anger and a petition for her dismissal – the result of which will be announced in court today.<\/p>\n

Critics also accused her of undermining the country’s politically influential army. As Thai and Cambodian troops clashed at the border, Paetongtarn told Hun Sen in the call that a Thai military commander “just wanted to look cool”.<\/p>\n

The leak prompted a key coalition partner of Paetongtarn’s Pheu Thai party to quit, and Paetongtarn faced heated calls for her resignation.<\/p>\n

While Paetongtarn defended the call as a “negotiation technique”, she also said she would no longer engage in private talks with Hun Sen.<\/p>\n

The Shinawatras’ friendship with Cambodia’s Hun family goes back decades. Hun Sen and Paetongtarn’s father, former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, consider each other “godbrothers”.<\/p>\n

But ties between Hun Sen and Thaksin have plummeted since the leaked phone call, with both political kingmakers publicly lashing out at each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How a leaked phone call led to a PM’s suspensionpublished at 08:32 British Summer Time 08:32 BST Image…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-100600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}