Paetongtarn Shinawatra is emerging as the candidate to beat in upcoming polls. Read more at straitstimes.com.
AMNAT CHAROEN, Thailand - Touting her billionaire family’s legacy of populism and massive election victories, Thailand’s Paetongtarn Shinawatra is emerging as the candidate to beat in upcoming polls, betting that nostalgia can win millions of working-class votes.
“We managed to fix everything in the first year but then four years later, we were ousted by a coup, so there are things that we have not achieved,” Ms Paetongtarn told Reuters in her first formal interview with foreign media ahead of the election, which is expected in May. Though yet to be named as Pheu Thai’s prime ministerial candidate, she is far ahead in opinion polls for premier, with twice the support of Mr Prayuth.
They have long been accused by opponents of cronyism to enrich business friends and of buying off the poor with wasteful populist policies. The family deny the charges.
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