BANGKOK — Real estate mogul Srettha Thavisin won the backing of Thailand's parliament on Tuesday (Aug 22) to become prime minister, paving the way to a new coalition government and an end to weeks of uncertainty and political stalemate. Srettha, who was thrust into the spotlight just a few months ago by the populist Pheu Thai Party, secured the support...
BANGKOK — Real estate mogul Srettha Thavisin won the backing of Thailand's parliament on Tuesday to become prime minister, paving the way to a new coalition government and an end to weeks of uncertainty and political stalemate.
Political neophyte Srettha, a former president of property developer Sansiri, will be tasked with forming and holding together a potentially fragile coalition that will include parties backed by the royalist military, which overthrew Pheu Thai governments in 2006 and 2014 coups. Thaksin, 74, received a rapturous reception upon his return from supporters at a Bangkok airport, before being escorted by police to the Supreme Court then to a jail to serve a sentence of eight years.
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