英拉被军方推翻显然是泰国将军们用武力结束英拉及其兄他信近15年来在泰国选举制度中不可撼动局面的措施。 他信本人亦曾担任总理，2006年被军事政变推翻。
Shinawatra’s overthrow by the military was clearly a bid by the country’s generals to end by force the electoral lock that she and her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra – himself a former prime minister who was deposed by a military coup in 2006 – have had on Thailand for almost 15 years.