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Xinhua News Agency: The Constitutional Court of Thailand ruled on the 14th that Prime Minister Setha's practice of nominating people with a record of illegal activities as ministers during the cabinet reshuffle violated relevant constitutional provisions and removed him from the post of prime minister with immediate effect.

The Constitutional Court made the above ruling with a majority of 5 to 4 on the same day, which means that Setta was dismissed less than a year after taking office and his cabinet was facing dissolution.

The Constitutional Court announced that Phichit, the Minister of the Prime Minister's Office nominated by Setha in the April cabinet reshuffle, had been sentenced to six months in prison for contempt of court and did not have the qualifications required of a cabinet minister as stipulated in the constitution. Setha knew that Phichit lacked the relevant qualifications but still nominated him as the Minister of the Prime Minister's Office, which violated the relevant provisions of the constitution.

After the Constitutional Court announced the ruling, Seta told the media outside the Prime Minister's Office that although the result was unexpected, he respected the court's ruling. He also said that he had done his best to fulfill his duties in the past year as prime minister.

Last August, Setth, the prime ministerial candidate nominated by the Pheu Thai Party, won the support of more than half of the members in a joint vote of the upper and lower houses and was elected as the new Prime Minister of Thailand.

In May this year, 40 then-caretaker members of the Thai Senate jointly requested the Constitutional Court through the Senate Speaker to terminate the positions of Setha and Phichit. Although Phichit had resigned as Minister of the Prime Minister's Office on May 21 "so that the Prime Minister can continue to govern the country", the Constitutional Court still decided to accept the case on May 23.