Back on the campaign trail just days after giving birth, Paetongtarn Shinawatra is confident of a landslide victory
“Just the word Chiang Mai is already enough to warm my heart,” Paetongtarn’s voice echoed from a speaker. “My father and my aunt were born there, and I miss them.”
Paetongtarn’s father and former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a coup in 2006 and now lives in exile.“In the old days we had a common saying – people would say they sold their rice field to receive medicine,” said Attachak Sattayanurak of Chiang Mai University’s department of history. Thaksin’s policies allowed people in rural areas the chance to climb the ladder, and they became far more politically engaged, he added: “He transformed Thai people into Thai citizens.
. She couldn’t go home, but should drive straight to a safe house; her father, who was abroad attending the UN general assembly, had been ousted. “I was so scared. I was still in my uniform,” Paetongtarn told the Thai media last year. “I called my sister, crying. I was full of fear.” After graduating, Paetongtarn studied hotel management at Surrey University in Guildford, England and later returned toto work in her family’s business empire. In 2021 she was appointed chief adviser for participation and innovation in Pheu Thai, the party associated with her father, and this year was selected as one of three prime ministerial candidates for the party.held days after giving birth, she said she was confident of a landslide.
Thaksin also runs regular talks on Clubhouse, where he talks about current topics such as AI or cryptocurrency. “But Thaksin still remains somewhat clumsy on certain occasions,” added Panuwart. Comments about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including that Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was “a clown”, are not in tune with younger people’s pro-democracy outlook.
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