(15 Aug 2024)
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Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand – 15 August 2024
1. Various of Thai prime ministerial candidate Paetongtarn Shinawatra linking hands with leaders of coalition partners after her announcement as candidate for prime minister
2. Wide of media
3. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Leader of Pheu Thai Party:
“Of course we’ve gathered here today to show the people that we are resolute, we are determined, we are together in pushing this country forwards."
4. Journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Leader of Pheu Thai Party:
“Our work in the coalition, ever since we’ve came in, each of us have our own ways of communicating, our ways of doing work that I believe is up to standard. So, hold on for just a while longer so that former prime minister Srettha’s work can bear fruit, we’re almost at the one-year mark – it is about time."
6. Wide of news conference
7. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Leader of Pheu Thai Party:
“He’s always given me advice in a lot that I do. In our family, we encourage each other often and yes he’ll always have advice for me when I go consult with him."
8. Wide of Paetongtarn with coalition partners
9. Mid of Paetongtarn smiling
10. Various of Paetongtarn posing for photos with senior coalition figures and party officials
STORYLINE:
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 populist Pheu Thai party declared their support for her at a news conference on Thursday.
Paetongtarn thanked her party and the coalition partners for their support.
"Of course, we’ve gathered here today to show the people that we are resolute, we are determined, we are together in pushing this country forwards" she said.
She asked people to bear with the current ruling coalition.
"Our work in the coalition, ever since we’ve came in, each of us have our own ways of communicating, our ways of doing work that I believe is up to standard. So, hold on for just a while longer so that former Prime Minister Srettha’s work can bear fruit, we’re almost at the one-year mark – it is about time," she said.
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 Shinawatra family, after her father and her aunt Yingluck Shinawatra.
Asked if her father Thaksin would be helping her, should she be elected prime minister she said "He’s always given me advice in a lot that I do."
"In our family, we encourage each other often and yes he’ll always have advice for me when I go consult with him," she added.
Her election Friday is highly probable, given the declared support of her party’s coalition partners who together have enough seats to win a majority in the parliamentary vote.
But her popularity with the general public is less certain.
A national poll at the end of June put her approval rate at less than 5%.
AP video by Jerry Harmer
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