PUBLISHED: 3 Oct 2024 at 12: 56
According to Time magazine, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the TIME100 Second listing of leaders for 2024 has been added.
The single Thai to look on the head group list was Ms. Paetongtarn, who was elected as Thailand’s 31st prime minister after house magnate Srettha Thavisin was dismissed by the Constitutional Court.
The record is divided into five categories: Designer, Phenoms, Innovators, Advocates and Leaders.
” This summers, Paetongtarn Shinawatra made history. On Aug 18, just weeks before her 38th day, she was confirmed as Thailand’s Prime Minister and Asia’s youngest-ever sexual leader”, the US-based information publication , reported.
Paetongtarn is the youngest child of businessman media mogul Thaksin Shinawatra, who was elected prime minister in 2001 but was ousted five years later, according to the report.
Additionally, the newspaper mentions her family members Somchai Wongsawat and Yingluck Shinawatra, who have both lost their positions in Thailand’s best jobs and were forced to step down by judicial and military actions.
” If Paetongtarn is to avoid her mother’s legacy of political imprisonment, she may find ways to implement new economic procedures while pacifying the nation’s electricity nexus”, Time reported. It quoted what she told the newspaper next year,” Thailand needs modify”.
The former president of the dissolved Future Forward Party, Thanatorn Juangroongruangkit, was on the checklist in 2019, followed by the former president of the dissolved Move Forward Party, Pita Limjaroenrat, next year.
Ms Paetongtarn, 38, is the first part from Pheu Thai Party to appear on the Day record, while her uncle Yingluck was included in record of” The Most Effective Women” by Forbes in 2011 and 2012.
She was also named the 2024 Women of the Year by the Bangkok Post.
From left: Former prime ministers Somchai Wongsawat, Thaksin Shinawatra and Yingluck Shinawatra. ( Photo: Ingshin21 Instagram )