Thai PM urged to quit over cooking shows

September 09, 2008 A Thai court ordered the prime minister to quit on Tuesday for hosting TV cooking shows, but his party said it would re-elect him within the week and protesters vowed to keep up a campaign that has paralyzed the government. The Constitutional Court, in a televised broadcast, said Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej had violated the constitution by hosting cooking shows on commercial television while in office, calling it a conflict of interest. Within minutes, the ruling People Power Party brushed off the verdict and said it wanted parliament to meet on Friday to re-elect the 73-year-old as prime minister.

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