Leaders1 min 10 sec
Leaders · 2000s
The Prime Minister Removed From Office Over a Cooking Show
In 2008, Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was removed from office after Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled against his paid cooking-show appearances. The issue was not cooking itself, but the constitutional ban on cabinet ministers holding paid outside work. Real history that sounds completely made up. Would you have believed a cooking show could end a premiership? Follow Who Cares History for more crazy real history that sounds made up. #WhoCaresHistory #ThailandHistory #WeirdHistory #PoliticalHistory #HistoryShorts #SamakSundaravej
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In 2008, Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was removed from office after Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled against his paid cooking-show appearances. The issue was not cooking itself, but the constitutional ban on cabinet ministers holding paid outside work. Real history that sounds completely made up. Would you have believed a cooking show could end a premiership? Follow Who Cares History for more crazy real history that sounds made up. #WhoCaresHistory #ThailandHistory #WeirdHistory #PoliticalHistory #HistoryShorts #SamakSundaravej
In 2008, Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was removed from office after Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled against his paid cooking-show appearances. The issue was not cooking itself, but the constitutional ban on cabinet ministers holding paid outside work. Real history that sounds completely made up. Would you have believed a cooking show could end a premiership? Follow Who Cares History for more crazy real history that sounds made up. #WhoCaresHistory #ThailandHistory #WeirdHistory #PoliticalHistory #HistoryShorts #SamakSundaravej
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