# Thailand’s prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been removed by the Constitutional Court, for violating ethics in a leaked June phone call. In the call she could be heard calling Cambodia’s former leader Hun Sen “uncle” and criticising the Thai army, amid worsening border tensions with Cambodia. The call, leaked by Hun Sen himself, damaged her reputation and critics accused her of undermining the country’s army. The ruling makes Paetongtarn, the daughter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the fifth prime minister to be removed from office by the court since 2008.
Thai court removes prime minister over leaked phone call with Cambodian leader