{"id":57776,"date":"2023-08-23T20:33:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T11:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/srettha-thavisin-the-real-estate-tycoon-turned-thai-prime-minister"},"modified":"2023-08-23T20:33:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T11:33:40","slug":"srettha-thavisin-the-real-estate-tycoon-turned-thai-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57776","title":{"rendered":"Srettha Thavisin: the real estate tycoon turned Thai prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman has no experience in government, but Pheu Thai says his industry past means he can help boost economy<\/p>\n<p>Srettha Thavisin, the 60-year-old real estate tycoon endorsed by the Thai king after winning enough parliamentary support to become prime minister, has no experience in government and is not an elected MP.<\/p>\n<p>Nor did the prominent businessman\u2019s party, Pheu Thai, come first in May\u2019s election. The reformist pro-democracy Move Forward party instead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/14\/opposition-parties-take-lead-in-thai-election\">won the most votes and seats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/srettha-thavisin-the-real-estate-tycoon-turned-thai-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman has no experience in government, but Pheu Thai says his industry past means he can help boost economySrettha Thavisin, the 60-year-old real estate tycoon endorsed by the Thai king after winning enough parliamentary support to become prime m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","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\/57776","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57777,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57776\/revisions\/57777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}