{"id":66258,"date":"2024-08-16T15:07:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/16\/little-experience-and-a-lot-on-her-plate-who-is-thailands-new-prime-minister"},"modified":"2024-08-16T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T06:07:56","slug":"little-experience-and-a-lot-on-her-plate-who-is-thailands-new-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66258","title":{"rendered":"Little experience and a lot on her plate: who is Thailand\u2019s new prime minister?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paetongtarn Shinawatra is the fourth member of her family to lead Thailand, but she faces a country that has moved on from her father\u2019s era<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/16\/paetongtarn-shinawatra-thailand-pm-replacement-voting-thaksin-shinawatra\">Paetongtarn Shinawatra becomes Thailand\u2019s youngest prime minister<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Paetongtarn Shinawatra comes from one of the most influential and divisive families in Thai politics. Her father <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/thaksin-shinawatra\">Thaksin<\/a> was once considered unbeatable at the ballot box, and she is the fourth member of the family to lead the country.<\/p>\n<p>But much has changed since the peak of her father\u2019s popularity, and Paetongtarn \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/16\/paetongtarn-shinawatra-thailand-pm-replacement-voting-thaksin-shinawatra\">Thailand\u2019s youngest ever prime minister<\/a> \u2013 will probably face an uphill battle in office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/16\/little-experience-and-a-lot-on-her-plate-who-is-thailands-new-prime-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paetongtarn Shinawatra is the fourth member of her family to lead Thailand, but she faces a country that has moved on from her father\u2019s eraPaetongtarn Shinawatra becomes Thailand\u2019s youngest prime ministerPaetongtarn Shinawatra comes from one of the mos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"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-66258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-thaksin-shinawatra","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66258","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66259,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66258\/revisions\/66259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}