Her family was ousted from power in Thailand. Now she wants to be Asia's youngest-ever female leader
“People can’t take it anymore,” says Paetongtarn. “These last eight years, people are getting into more debt, [Supporters hold posters of Paetongtarn Shinawatra during the general election campaign in Ubon Ratchathani province, Thailand, on Feb. 17.from the voters she now courts. Born in Bangkok, she attended elite schools before spending a year studying at the University of Surrey in the U.K. By her own admission, she was more interested in partying than hitting the books.
Family is everything to Paetongtarn, who says she spends any spare time engrossed in parenting and child psychology books, preparing for the impending arrival of her second child, a boy. “My dad is excited because he will look like him,” she says. Sure enough, her smartphone background is a photo of her fugitive father with his 2-year-old granddaughter, Titarn.
Paetongtarn Shinawatra, center, at her graduation day with her family—including ousted Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra—at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok on July 10, 2008.Thaksin’s role in May’s election, however, goes beyond that of doting grandfather. Much of Pheu Thai’s appeal is rooted in nostalgia for more prosperous times when he was in power.
against an amnesty bill that would have allowed Thaksin to return home a free man and reunited him with some $1.2 billion in seized cash and assets. Paetongtarn insists that she is not simply a stooge for her father to engineer his self-serving return.
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