BANGKOK: Thailand's junta-stacked parliament voted overwhelmingly Friday to impeach embattled former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra over her administration's controversial rice subsidy scheme, just hours after prosecutors said she should also face criminal corruption charges.
A tally of votes -- placed on a whiteboard in the 220-seat National Legislative Assembly and broadcast live -- showed 190 members voted in favour of impeachment. The decision, which needed the vote of three fifths of the NLA, means Yingluck will be banned from politics for five years.
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