Thai lawmakers elected Paetongtarn Shinawatra as the country's new prime minister, making her the second woman to hold the top job after her aunt Yingluck.
Thai lawmakers elected Paetongtarn Shinawatra as the country's new prime minister, making her the second woman to hold the top job after her aunt Yingluck.
Her Pheu Thai party had secured backing from the governing alliance a day earlier to nominate her for the top job, replacingPaetongtarn Shinawatra claps during a press conference with coalition party leaders as she is named the candidate to be Thailand's next prime minister at Shinawatra Tower in Bangkok on Aug 15, 2024.
The timing seemed to suggest a truce in the long-standing feud as both sides sought to see off the threat posed by the newer Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Srettha Thavisin attend an election rally for the Pheu Thai party at the Thunder Dome Stadium in Nonthaburi, north of the capital Bangkok, on Apr 5, 2023. Known in Thailand by her nickname Ung Ing, Paetongtarn is the youngest child of Thaksin, a policeman turned telecoms tycoon who won two elections in the early 2000s.
Thaksin found his way to the premiership by 2001 and expanded spending on healthcare, rural development and farming subsidies - dubbed"Thaksinomics" for the poor.Entering university in Thailand after his unceremonious ouster, Paetongtarn described those years as some of her toughest, when she was also accused of cheating.
Paetongtarn shares her jet-setting lifestyle with almost a million followers on Instagram, and her youth and energy stand out in a political scene dominated by strait-laced elderly men.
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