Thailand has suspended its prime minister. What happens next?

The unusual leadership reshuffle follows a ruling by the Constitutional Court of Thailand on Wednesday, which ordered Prayut to stand aside while it considers if he breached the eight-year term limit recently written into the constitution.Prayut took the role of prime minister after a military coup in 2014 before winning a controversial But critics say it is time for him to go. “There have been some economic mismanagement, politics is still polarized, since over the past eight years since he’s been prime minister — or since he’s been called as the prime minister — Thailand has not done well,” Thitinan said.While youth-led protests seem to have died down as of late, he said this was because some of the movement’s leaders had Dissatisfaction over the military government and the kingdom’s monarchy continued well into 2021.King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who assumed the throne in 2016 and was crowned in May 2019, is believed to spend much of his time overseas and has been largely absent from public life in Thailand as the country grappled with the coronavirus pandemic.Since becoming King, billions of dollars worth of assets held by the Thai Crown have been transferred to Vajiralongkorn, asserting his control of royal finances and vastly increasing his personal wealth, which drew ire among the public who are required to revere the monarchy.CNN’s Helen Regan contributed reporting.