{"id":54907,"date":"2023-05-07T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/07\/exiled-pms-daughter-determined-to-seize-the-reins-in-thai-elections"},"modified":"2023-05-07T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T11:00:19","slug":"exiled-pms-daughter-determined-to-seize-the-reins-in-thai-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54907","title":{"rendered":"Exiled PM\u2019s daughter determined to \u2018seize the reins\u2019 in Thai elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back on the campaign trail just days after giving birth, Paetongtarn Shinawatra is confident of a landslide victory<\/p>\n<p>Paetongtarn Shinawatra\u2019s face beamed from the side of a campaign truck as she addressed crowds of her supporters. \u201cI am happy I have the chance to talk to you, Chiang Mai people,\u201d she said last month. \u201cIt\u2019s too bad I could not be there in person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then eight-and-a-half months pregnant, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/06\/who-is-paetongtarn-shinawatra-the-political-scion-aiming-to-become-thailand-pm\" title=\"\">Paetongtarn<\/a>, 36, who is running to become Thailand\u2019s next prime minister, has been unable to travel during the final leg of election campaigning. Instead, in a red jacket, the trademark colour of her Pheu Thai party, she video-called her supporters in Chiang Mai, in the north, from a hospital in Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/07\/exiled-pms-daughter-determined-to-seize-the-reins-in-thai-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back on the campaign trail just days after giving birth, Paetongtarn Shinawatra is confident of a landslide victoryPaetongtarn Shinawatra\u2019s face beamed from the side of a campaign truck as she addressed crowds of her supporters. \u201cI am happy I have the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93,2873,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-thaksin-shinawatra","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54908,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54907\/revisions\/54908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}