A ranar 19 ga watan Satumban shekarar 2006, sojojin Royal Thai a karkashin Janar Sonthi Boonyaratglin suka yi juyin mulki ba tare da jini ba tare da hambarar da gwamnatin rikon kwarya.Juyin mulkin ya samu karbuwa sosai daga masu zanga-zangar kin jinin Thaksin, kuma PAD ta wargaza kanta.Shugabannin juyin mulkin sun kafa gwamnatin soji mai suna Council for Democratic Reform, wanda daga baya aka fi sani da Council for National Security.Ta soke kundin tsarin mulkin 1997, ta fitar da kundin tsarin mulkin rikon kwarya sannan ta nada gwamnatin wucin gadi tare da tsohon kwamandan sojojin kasar Janar Surayud Chulanont a matsayin firaminista.Har ila yau, ta nada Majalisar Dokoki ta kasa da za ta yi aiki da ayyukan majalisa da Majalisar Tsarin Tsarin Mulki don ƙirƙirar sabon kundin tsarin mulki.An fitar da sabon kundin tsarin mulkin a watan Agustan 2007 bayan kuri'ar raba gardama.^[80]A yayin da sabon kundin tsarin mulkin ya fara aiki, an gudanar da babban zabe a watan Disamba na shekara ta 2007. Tun da farko dai an rusa Thailand da jam'iyyu biyu na kawance sakamakon wani hukunci da kotun tsarin mulkin da aka nada a watan Mayu, ta same su da laifin zaben. zamba, kuma an hana shugabannin jam’iyyarsu shiga harkokin siyasa na tsawon shekaru biyar.Tsofaffin mambobin Thai Rak Thai sun sake haduwa tare da fafatawa a zaben a matsayin jam'iyyar People's Power Party (PPP), tare da fitaccen dan siyasa Samak Sundaravej a matsayin shugaban jam'iyyar.Jam'iyyar PPP ta samu kuri'u na magoya bayan Thaksin, ta lashe zaben da kusan mafi rinjaye, sannan ta kafa gwamnati tare da Samak a matsayin Firayim Minista.^[80]