Political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra has won the backing of parliament to become Thailand’s youngest prime minister, only a day after she was thrust into the spotlight amid an unrelenting power struggle between the warring elites.
The 37-year-old daughter of divisive political heavyweight Thaksin Shinawatra passed the required threshold of 51 per cent of votes on Friday and now faces a baptism of fire just two days after ally Srettha Thavisin was dismissed as premier by a judiciary central to Thailand’s two decades of intermittent turmoil.
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