Daughter of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin will be nominated as new leader in parliamentary vote

Associated Press

BANGKOK (AP) — Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the daughter of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, will be nominated as the country’s new prime minister in a parliamentary vote, her party and its coalition partners said Thursday. The move follows the removal of former Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin by court order over an ethical violation a day earlier. Leaders of the 11 party-coalition led by Paetongtarn’s Pheu Thai party on Thursday declared their support for her at a news conference after the party announced her candidacy. If Paetongtarn is approved in Parliament’s vote, which is scheduled for Friday, she will become Thailand’s second female prime minister and the country’s third leader from the Shinwatra family, after her father and her aunt Yingluck Shinawatra.