Thaksin family scion, the ever popular Paetongtarn Shinawatra, is top choice of Thais in survey for PM Job


In this file photo taken on April 24, 2022, Paetongtarn Shinawatra (centre), youngest daughter of former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, poses for photographs at the Pheu Thai party’s annual meeting in Bangkok. - AFP

BANGKOK, June 26 (Bloomberg): Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, is the top choice of voters to lead the South-East Asian nation after it holds general elections in less than a year, according to an opinion poll.

Paetongtarn, who is widely tipped to be the prime minister candidate of the nation’s largest opposition party Pheu Thai, got 25% backing of the respondents in a June 20-23 survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, known as Nida.

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