2024-08-16 08:02:20
The Shinawatra family has returned to power in Bangkok. After a vote in Parliament, Paetongtarn – the Thais refer to their politicians by their first name – at the age of 37, Friday August 16, to the highest office, by 319 votes out of 493, replacing Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, was fired two days before. The mother of two children, thus becoming the youngest prime minister in the history of her country and the second woman, after Yingluck’s aunt, who was defeated by the military in 2014, to lead a government in the government the.
The youngest daughter of the patriarch of the royal family, Thaksin Shinawatra, was also removed in 2006 by a military coup after five years in power and returned from exile in August 2023, Paetongtarn is the chairman of Pheu Thai (Party for the Thais), party Shinawatra. So he is the third member of the family to become the head of government in twenty four years.
Paetongtarn had been the party’s favorite in the polls during the May 2023 election campaign but his party finished in second place, far from the majority it had hoped for. Another Pheu Thai candidate, Srettha Thavisin, was chosen as Prime Minister since the party chose to form an alliance with those who lost the election, the same putschist generals who had defeated his aunt nine years ago…
The program that arrived then allowed the return from exile Thaksin, living in Dubai since 2008: the royal pardon was granted, reduced to one year eight years in prison which had already been sentenced in absentia in several corruption cases. Keeping a Shinawatra in power, however, would have been difficult as Thaksin was still serving his sentence. The latter also seems to want to keep his daughter for the next move, mainly because Paetongtarn has been perceived as lacking in maturity and experience.
Back by proxy
A year later, the political landscape is completely reshaped following a double decision by the Constitutional Court, the institution that serves the most conservative forces in the government and which, for decades, has ordered the his influence on Thai politics. He first dissolved, on August 7, the Front Party, which is first in the 2023 elections, on the grounds that the latter has campaigned for the reform of the lese-majesté law – criticized by all human rights groups for abuse and abuse that gives us this constitutional monarchy where the king has special powers.
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