Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Thaksin Shinawatra, Bangkok, August 18, 2024. REUTERS/Panumas Sanguanwong
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Paetongtarn Shinawatra was endorsed as prime minister by Thailand's king on Sunday, two days after parliament elected her, paving the way for her to form a cabinet in the coming weeks.
Paetongtarn, 37, becomes Thailand's youngest prime minister just days after ally Srettha Thavisin was dismissed as premier by the Constitutional Court, a judiciary central to Thailand's two decades of intermittent political turmoil.
