(16 Aug 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Bangkok – 23 April 2023
1. Wide of Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Srettha Thavisin on stage waving
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ARCHIVE: Bangkok – 22 August 2023
2. Mid of Thaksin Shinawatra at airport after his return to Thailand after years of self-exile. Paetongtarn is with him
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Bangkok - 16 August 2024
3. Mid of Prime Minister-designate Paetongtarn Shinawatra entering Pheu Thai party headquarters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thai Prime Minister-designate:
"I decided that it's about time to do something for the country and for the party as well, I hope that I can do my best to, you know, make the country go forward. That's what I try to do. And, right now, of course, today's I feel very honored. And I feel very happy."
5. Mid of audience
STORYLINE:
Thailand’s Parliament elected Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the youngest daughter of the divisive former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, as the country’s new prime minister Friday.
Paetongtarn becomes Thailand’s third leader from the Shinawatra family, after her father, who was ousted by coup before returning from exile last year, and her aunt Yingluck Shinawatra, who lives in exile.
Paetongtarn also became Thailand’s second female prime minister after her aunt and the country’s youngest leader at 37.
"I decided that it's about time to do something for the country and for the party as well, I hope that I can do my best to, you know, make the country go forward," she told supporters at Pheu Thai party in Bangkok.
Paetongtarn was confirmed by 319 votes in approval, with 145 voted against her and 27 abstained.
Members of Parliament spent about an hour casting their votes in public one by one.
She is the leader of the ruling Pheu Thai party but was not an elected lawmaker, which was not required for her to be a candidate for prime minister.
Paetongtarn was the sole nominee and got a majority of the votes in Parliament with the voting ongoing.
The last prime minister had been removed by the Constitutional Court two days ago over an ethics violation.
AP video shot by Jerry Harmer
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