{"id":66228,"date":"2024-08-15T11:24:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T02:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/15\/thailand-pheu-thai-party-leader-srettha-thavisin-replacement"},"modified":"2024-08-15T11:24:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T02:24:25","slug":"thailands-pheu-thai-party-to-choose-successor-after-prime-minister-removed-by-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66228","title":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s Pheu Thai party to choose successor after prime minister removed by court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biggest party in caretaker government to choose between former justice minister Chaikasem Nitisiri and Thaksin Shinawatra\u2019s daughter, Paetongtarn<\/p>\n<p>The biggest party in Thailand\u2019s caretaker government will meet on Thursday to choose a successor for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/14\/thailand-pm-srettha-thavisin-court-case-dismissal-ruling-judgment\">dismissed former premier Srettha Thavisin<\/a>, as it races to shore up its alliance a day ahead of a pivotal parliamentary vote on a new prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand is again gripped by political drama, less than a year after real estate mogul Srettha rose to power after weeks of parliamentary deadlock, with his Pheu Thai party scrambling to retain control and deliver on its stalled populist agenda amid a struggling economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/15\/thailand-pheu-thai-party-leader-srettha-thavisin-replacement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biggest party in caretaker government to choose between former justice minister Chaikasem Nitisiri and Thaksin Shinawatra\u2019s daughter, PaetongtarnThe biggest party in Thailand\u2019s caretaker government will meet on Thursday to choose a successor for dismis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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-66228","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\/66228","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66229,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66228\/revisions\/66229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}