By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE NEW PHEU THAI-LED coalition government under Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra remarkably features certain members of cabinet literally named in pure relation to hereditary factors.
The most conspicuous among the hereditarily related ministers is Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss/billionaire power player Thaksin Shinawatra.
The 38-year-old woman prime minister, the country’s youngest ever, had never been registered as partisan member or employed in government or elected an MP until last year during which she had run among a trio of Pheu Thai candidates for prime minister alongside her predecessor/court-deposed Srettha Thavisin and Pheu Thai MP Chaikasem Nitisiri.
Given sort of the hereditary right passed on from her father, the inexperienced, yet-overbearing Paetongtarn was named without rivals for Pheu Thai leader after her billionaire father had returned home from self-exile abroad last year to serve a curtailed, one-year jail sentence for power abuse and misconduct charges without literally spending a single day behind bars.
Given the historic, questionable phenomenon in which the former real estate tycoon-turned-prime minister, who had been allegedly pushed to power by Thaksin’s sister/fugitive prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, was immediately deposed of power by a 5:4 vote of the judges of the Constitutional Court, the de facto Pheu Thai boss finally managed to land his daughter the premiership.
Four others in the Paetongtarn I cabinet are similarly related to the hereditary right to succeed their fathers as members of cabinet including Zabeda Thaiset, daughter of former deputy interior minister Chada Thaiset, who had finally withdrawn himself from the list of newly-named members of cabinet for fear of the possibility that he be finally found by the Constitutional Court to have had personal stigma for being previously involved in a homicide case, thus being deemed unethical in accordance to the wide-ranging code of political ethics.
Zabeda was named deputy interior minister in place of her Bhumjaithai-attached, sensational father.
Anutin Charnvirakul, leader of the Bhumjaithai dominated and directed by de facto party boss Newin Chidchob, retains his status as deputy prime minister-cum-interior minister and is a son of former deputy prime minister/construction tycoon Chavarat Charnvirakul.
Pheu Thai secretary-general/MP Soravong Thienthong, son of former interior minister/former power player Sanoh Thienthong, was named tourism & sports minister whilst Pheu Thai MP Julapun Amornvivat, son of former deputy prime minister/now Pheu Thai MP Sompong Amornvivat, retains his status as deputy finance minister.
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Top and Front Page: Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra. Both photos: Sanook.com
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