BANGKOK — Thailand's parliament elected political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra as its youngest prime minister on Friday (Aug 16), only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle between the country's warring elites.
Paetongtarn Shinawatra elected Thailand's youngest prime minister.BANGKOK — Thailand's parliament elected political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra as its youngest prime minister on Friday , only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle between the country's warring elites.
At stake for Paetongtarn could be the legacy and political future of the billionaire Shinawatra family, whose once unstoppable populist juggernaut suffered its first election defeat in over two decades last year, and had to do a deal with its bitter enemies in the military to form a government. Paetongtarn won with 319 votes, or nearly two-thirds of the house. She was not present in parliament and watched the vote from Pheu Thai's headquarters.
The Shinawatras and their business allies have borne the brunt of the crisis, which pits parties with mass appeal against a powerful nexus of conservatives, old money families and royalist generals with deep connections in key institutions.
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