By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PRIME MINISTER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra today (June 24) categorically denied that her exposed conversation with Cambodian leader Hun Sen on her private cellphone has done any damage to Thailand at all.
Speaking to reporters at Government House, the woman prime minister/daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, contended that her spontaneous remarks made on June 15 during the private, yet-exposed telephone chitchat with Hun Sen on Thai-Cambodian border conflict has practically rendered no damage to the country and that she could definitely give truthful explanations to it, given the possibility that she might be summoned to testify in court at any given time.
She apparently acknowledged the latest event in which the Constitutional Court is scheduled around early next month to decide whether to take into consideration an impeachment bid lodged against the woman prime minister by a group of senators and whether to order her to immediately stop running the country pending a court ruling on it.
The senators, mostly known as stalwart and supportive to the former coalition partner Bhumjaithai, have petitioned that Thaksin’s daughter’s undue, verbal communication with Hun Sen has considerably caused damage to the country which could immediately warrant an end to her individual status as head of government at the order of the court.
Whilst calling Hun Sen “uncle” during their private telephone talk, Paetongtarn branded Thailand’s Second Army Area Commander Lt.Gen. Boonsin Padklang “one of those on the opposite side” and personally offered to do whatever the Cambodian leader may want her to do to satisfy him.
In the meantime, the besieged prime minister declined to comment on the current situation in which many people were pressing her to immediately step down amidst allegations that she has evidently perpetrated dimwitted, immature conduct deemed as overly submissive to the Cambodians and considerably detrimental to Thailand’s territorial integrity and national prestige pertaining to the sustained border dispute.
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