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Home » Background » Paetongtarn Shinawatra is 'daddy's little girl'
Paetongtarn Shinawatra is 'daddy's little girl'
Posted in Background, Politics, Elections 2023
Tags: Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Pheu Thai Party, Volkskrant
Paetongtarn Shinawatra (36) – (Editorial credit: SPhotograph / Shutterstock.com)
In de Volkskrant you can read a background article with the profile of Paetongtarn Shinawatra (36), the youngest daughter of the popular former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, the leader of the Phu Tai party and fully in the race for many parliamentary seats.
De Volkskrant writes that Paetongtarn Shinawatra is expected to win the Thai elections with 47% of the vote. A newcomer to politics, she is running an energetic campaign, promising economic prosperity and reforms. The current Prime Minister Prayuth Chan Ocha, with only 11% in the polls. However, Paetongtarn's victory does not automatically mean she becomes prime minister, as the political and military establishment in Bangkok does not support the Thaksin dynasty.
Read the whole article here: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/de-gedoodverfde-winnaar-van-de-thaise-verkiezingen-presenteert-zich-als-pappa-s-kleine-meid~b4d720266/ (the article is behind a paywall).
Here's a longer story about Paethongtarn Shinawatra:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/06/who-is-paetongtarn-shinawatra-the-political-scion-aiming-to-become-thailand-pm
Not bad either, but all these pieces really only let you know who she is, but nothing about what kind of person she is. What moves her, what does she do in her free time, what fuels the fire in her? What speaks for or against her as leader/prime minister? This also applies to other aspiring prime ministers (think of MFP's Pita). But the pieces are of course written for an audience that just knows how to find Thailand on the map and with a bit of luck a few political facts. So it doesn't go deep.
As for her name, it is แพทองธาร ชินวัตร and is pronounced Phee-thong-thaan Si-ná-wát. Phee = raft, houseboat. thong = gold. Thaan = a stream of water, stream. So that together makes something of “Golden river raft” (?). I wouldn't know how to translate her nickname, อุ๊งอิ๊ง (óeng-íng). When I Google that I get both “cry, sorry” (ร้องไห้, เสียใจ) and “cute person” (คนน่ารัก) as options. Source: Pojnanukrian website. Tino, what does your big black dictionary say that contains almost everything?
Alas, Rob, my thick, heavy dictionary is no more information.
A daughter of Thaksin as prime minister is as much asking for trouble as a sister.
Both are political super-lightweights and have also never been active in any kind of political business. That is not a recommendation and calls for disaster. What self-respecting company hires a new CEO who has never run a company and never worked in business?
The PT is very keen to win an absolute majority in parliament and it is clear why. The daughter becomes prime minister, barely enters parliament to answer for the government's policies (just like her father who hated hearing criticism of his policies) and the cadaver voting discipline within the PT is rampant. It resembles the communist party of China today and Russia in the past. And that is called democracy. I call that party dictatorship.
Would like to know how many foreign heads of government Ung-ing has met while accompanying her father on his foreign travels and how many Luis Vuitton stores she has visited in each country.
Slightly sour response Chris, as if Prayut had any political experience.
Should she become it (which I don't expect) then she will in any case have the best teacher you could wish for, her father was by far the best prime minister in Thailand, she also studied political science, which was noticeable in the debates because she also emerged as the winner.
Let me just say that, in my opinion, Thaksin was definitely not the best prime minister in this country. Just read the recent post. When he comes back to Thailand he has to grumble for another 10 years…..it's up to you.
I don't like Thaksin either, but I wouldn't have come to the same conclusion as the court because he signed a land purchase by his wife that has little to criticize (that land is not for a particularly low price just before the crisis of 1997 it was bought for an extremely high price and bought during the auction for slightly above the estimated market price). Now he has a few more convictions to his name, which means that he has to grumble for a total of 12 years: 2 years for the two- and three-digit lottery case, 3 years for abuse of power with regard to the approval of a loan to Myanmar, which was then used to buy telecom stuff at Thaksin's family was bought, 5 years for owning shares in telecom while performing public office. There will probably be something to criticize about that, but I don't know the details by heart.
Anyway, it should be clear that politicians in Thailand often use their network and that often certainly does not deserve the beauty prize. Transparency, accountability, that hardly happens unless you are from the “wrong” camp…
Phua Thai has also done stupid things as a party, think of those I-pads for the schools. Or the amnesty scheme (I strongly oppose, given their track record it would be more logical if Thaksin, Aphisit, Prayuth and several others would grumble in jail for, among other things, blood on their hands). But Phua Thai also did a lot of good, which finally gave people the idea that parliament was doing something for the citizen, think of the 1 million baht for each Tambon fund. No wonder Phua Thai gained so much support.
But a Shinawat in a prominent position will certainly anger one of the other powers, so then you can indeed take poison that it will cause unrest again. Just like in 2013-2014 there was artificial heating because Phua Thai had to and would give way. The people who keep voting wrong and don't want to learn... yes.
I doubt whether Oeng-ing is the best prime ministerial candidate, PT and others have enough people who have a lot of experience, knowledge, networks and so on. But would she make a bad prime minister? We have also heard all sorts of rubbish about Aunt Krab, while she was not a stupid aunt or a bad leader either. Thaksin always remains in the background, but that will also be the case (to a lesser extent) if PT goes for another candidate. So I want to get to know Oeng-ing a little better before passing judgment on her.