BANGKOK, Aug 16 — On the campaign trail in rural Thailand last year, Paetongtarn Shinawatra reminded voters of her influential billionaire family’s legacy of populism in what...
At 37, billionaire heiress Paetongtarn Shinawatra becomes Thailand’s youngest PM after previous stints by father Thaksin and aunt Yingluck
Now, the daughter of the country’s most divisive but enduring politician, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, will take the office her father and aunt once occupied, underlining her family’s central place in Thai politics. She will also seek to beat another recurring theme for the Shinawatra family: The governments led by her father and aunt were toppled by the military in 2006 and 2014, respectively.
Srettha was the fourth premier of a Thaksin-backed political party to be removed by a court ruling, a sign of the deep divide that still persists. “When I was eight-years-old, my father entered politics. Since that day, my life has also been intertwined with politics,” she said at a speech in March. Last October, after the Pheu Thai navigated a circuitous route to forming the government, she was anointed the party’s leader.
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