In a historic moment, Paetongtarn Shinawatra was sworn in as the prime minister of Thailand on Friday.
She officially becomes Thailand’s youngest prime minister as she was 38 years old.
This comes after a month of political turmoil that saw her predecessor eased out of office and the main opposition party dissolved.
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Paetongtarn, a daughter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, took the oath of office in a closed-door ceremony with King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
Paetongtarn replaces Srettha Thavisin from her Pheu Thai party after the kingdom’s Constitutional Court sacked him in mid-August for appointing a cabinet minister with a criminal conviction.
