Bhathiya Barukanda
Bangkok: Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of Thai political heavyweight Thaksin Shinawatra, won the parliamentary vote to become Thailands’ youngest Prime Minister on Friday, days after her predecessor Srettha Thavisin was removed from office over an ethics code violation for appointing a minister who had served time in prison. She earlier passed the required threshold of 51 per cent votes required to win the backing of the Thai Parliament.
Paetongtarn, 37, had been expected to receive parliamentary approval. The daughter of the country’s most divisive but enduring politician, she will take the office her father and aunt once occupied, underlining her family’s central place in Thai politics. She will also become the second female leader of the country after Yingluck Shinawatra.
