Thailand’s Constitutional Court removed suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office on August 29, 2025, over her handling of the country’s border row with Cambodia. The daughter of controversial billionaire and ex-prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was suspended in July after her leaked phone call with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen. After the court verdict, Paetongtarn said she accepted the decision, adding that she tried her best for the country.
Called it.
Trying to chum up with the former Cambodian PM by calling him 'uncle' (whose son is also the current PM, btw) while deriding her own generals for 'trying to look cool', only to have said 'uncle' then post the entire phone recording on Facebook of all places, deliberately, mind... is a very rookie, and of course naive, mistake to make in politics.
She just may be done. It's a shame too because following her family's footsteps while avoiding their fates is obviously on everybody's mind, esp. hers, so to be done in by a phone scandal ("Unclegate"?) would be a lame way to go.