Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra dismissed from office by court
Thailand's Constitutional Court has dismissed caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office, ruling that she is guilty of violating the country's constitution for reassigning a senior security official in 2011, CNN reported.
"The defendant has abused her position as prime minister," said the judge in the ruling. "Her prime ministership has ... ended."
The court ruled that nine cabinet ministers who attended a meeting over the decision to transfer the official were also to be removed from office.
Deputy PM and Commerce Minister Niwatthamrong Boonsongpaisan has been nominated by the cabinet as the next caretaker prime minister, Secretary General to the Prime Minister, Suranand Vejjajiva, told CNN.