2025 Thai political crisis

2025 Thai political crisis
Prime Minister's Office notification announcing the resignation of 8 Bhumjaithai Party ministers after the party left the coalition
Date18 June 2025 – 7 September 2025
Cause
Motive
  • Pressure Paetongtarn Shinawatra to resign
  • Trigger an early general election
Participants
Outcome
  • Bhumjaithai Party withdraws from the coalition
  • United Thai Nation Party resolves to seek the Prime Minister's resignation after passing the annual budget bill
  • Paetongtarn Shinawatra suspended, and then removed from the office by the Constitutional Court
  • Anutin Charnvirakul becomes 32nd Prime Minister of Thailand

On 18 June 2025, a political crisis in Thailand arose when a phone call between then-Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Cambodian senate president Hun Sen leaked amidst a major border conflict between the two kingdoms. The leak led the Bhumjaithai Party to withdraw from the governing coalition led by Paetongtarn and her Pheu Thai Party.

The resulting controversy and backlash led the Constitutional Court to suspend Paetongtarn from her official duties on 1 July, before fully removing her from office on 29 August. Due to the impasse created by the withdrawal of Bhumjaithai from the majority, the minority People's Party acted as kingmaker, supporting the former party's leader, Anutin Charnvirakul, to succeed the caretaker government.

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