Thailand's Constitutional Court on Tuesday accepted a petition against Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra over suspected breach of the constitution and ruled to suspend her from duty pending the court's decision, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua.

The court in a statement said it had accepted a petition from 36 senators that accuses Paetongtarn of dishonesty and breaching ethnical standards in violation of the constitution over the leak of a politically sensitive telephone conversation with Cambodia's influential former leader Hun Sen.

The leaked call with the veteran Cambodian politician triggered domestic outrage and has left Paetongtarn's coalition with a razer-thin majority, with a key party abandoning the alliance and expected to soon seek a no confidence vote in parliament, as protest groups demand the premier resigns, according to Reuters.