Ms Paetongtarn Shinawatra replaces Mr Cholnan Srikaew, who stepped down end of August. Read more at straitstimes.com.
, daughter of former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, was elected as the new leader of the party that heads the nation’s ruling coalition, cementing her family’s grip on power following a general election earlier in 2023.
The election was necessitated after the party’s previous leader Cholnan Srikaew stepped down at the end of August.The youngest of Thaksin’s three children, 37-year-old Paetongtarn is the latest member of the Shinawatra clan to join active politics. Her rise to leadership came within two years of her joining the party, and is set to strengthen the Shinawatra clan’s grip over the organisation and the government.in August, as his party assumed power as head of an 11-party coalition – seen as a deal with the conservative establishment that once loathed him.
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