Thai king endorses Paetongtarn Shinawatra as prime minister


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.

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