Thaksin Shinawatra’s party chooses his 37-year-old daughter 'Ung Ing’ as new PM candidate after Srettha sacked
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, known by her nickname "Ung Ing" and the youngest daughter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, gestures during a press conference as she is named the candidate to be Thailand's next prime minister at Shinawatra Tower in Bangkok on August 15, 2024. — AFP pic
Thursday, 15 Aug 2024 7:30 PM MYT
BANGKOK, Aug 15 — Thailand’s Pheu Thai party has chosen 37-year-old Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of billionaire ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra, as its candidate for prime minister, it announced today, a day after a court dismissed the incumbent premier in an ethics case.
“We decide to nominate Paetongtarn Shinawatra,” party secretary general Sorawong Thienthong told a press conference in Bangkok.
Lawmakers will vote tomorrow in parliament — where Pheu Thai heads a governing coalition — on whether to approve Paetongtarn as prime minister.
The vote comes after Thailand’s Constitutional Court sacked premier Srettha Thavisin on yesterday after ruling he had breached regulations by appointing a cabinet minister with a criminal conviction.
Srettha was the third prime minister from Pheu Thai to be kicked out by the Constitutional Court and leaves office after less than a year.
Thai politics has endured two decades of chronic instability marked by coups, street protests and court orders.
Much of it has been fuelled by the long-running battle by the military and pro-royalist establishment against progressive parties linked to Thaksin. — AFP
Thursday, 15 Aug 2024 7:30 PM MYT
BANGKOK, Aug 15 — Thailand’s Pheu Thai party has chosen 37-year-old Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of billionaire ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra, as its candidate for prime minister, it announced today, a day after a court dismissed the incumbent premier in an ethics case.
“We decide to nominate Paetongtarn Shinawatra,” party secretary general Sorawong Thienthong told a press conference in Bangkok.
Lawmakers will vote tomorrow in parliament — where Pheu Thai heads a governing coalition — on whether to approve Paetongtarn as prime minister.
The vote comes after Thailand’s Constitutional Court sacked premier Srettha Thavisin on yesterday after ruling he had breached regulations by appointing a cabinet minister with a criminal conviction.
Srettha was the third prime minister from Pheu Thai to be kicked out by the Constitutional Court and leaves office after less than a year.
Thai politics has endured two decades of chronic instability marked by coups, street protests and court orders.
Much of it has been fuelled by the long-running battle by the military and pro-royalist establishment against progressive parties linked to Thaksin. — AFP
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