Paetongtarn Shinawatra speaks after being elected Thailands new PM

Опубликовано: 21 Август 2024
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(16 Aug 2024)
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Bangkok - 16 August 2024
1. Mid of Prime Minister-designate Paetongtarn Shinawatra entering Pheu Thai party headquarters
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thai Prime Minister-designate:
"I am so excited today. Because I can't really, like, hold my breath at all. Like, I don't know why. Normally, I get on stage very often and I don't get excited at all, but today it's like my hands are shaking. So yes, this one. I'm trying to tell you guys how I feel right now. And then, I think my words are like mumbling a lot. Sorry about that."
3. Pan left of audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Paetongtarn Shinawatra, Thai Prime Minister-designate:
"That's a very good question, actually, because there's a lot going through my mind, especially right now. That's why I said that I'm so excited right now. Like, I don't really feel this feeling for a long, long time. So, yes. I was very confused and I didn't know what to do when the results came out. And I felt very bad, because I didn't expect the results to be like that at all. And no, no, the the Wednesday that you asked. So yes, on Wednesday I heard the result because I was on a plane flying back from China. So, when I, you know, I turned on my phone and then I read the news, I felt that almost like, I didn't know it'll happen like this. So, yes, I was very sad. And, I got back up again, and then I talked to Khun Srettha and I talked to my family, and I talked to a lot of people from my party, and I decided that it's about time to do something for the country and for the party as well. I hope that I can do my best to, you know, make the country go forward. That's what I try to do. And, right now, of course, today's I feel very honored. And I feel very happy....To do my best in every day. And you every opportunities that I have. I think that's making me feel like, of course, like, you know, there's a lot of things going on around me. But if I always do my best and always think about, what is happening right now, right here in front of my face, I would I will be fine."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Thailand’s Parliament elected Paetongtarn Shinawatra, the youngest daughter of the divisive former leader Thaksin Shinawatra, as the country’s new prime minister Friday.

"I am so excited today. Because I can't really, like, hold my breath at all," Paetongtarn told supporters at her Pheu Thai party headquarters in Bangkok.

She becomes Thailand’s third leader from the Shinawatra family, after her father, who was ousted by coup before returning from exile last year, and her aunt Yingluck Shinawatra, who lives in exile.

Paetongtarn also became Thailand’s second female prime minister after her aunt and the country’s youngest leader at 37.

She was confirmed by 319 votes in approval, with 145 voted against her and 27 abstained. Members of Parliament spent about an hour casting their votes in public one by one.

She is the leader of the ruling Pheu Thai party but was not an elected lawmaker, which was not required for her to be a candidate for prime minister.

Paetongtarn was the sole nominee and got a majority of the votes in Parliament with the voting ongoing.

The last prime minister had been removed by the Constitutional Court two days ago over an ethics violation.

AP video shot by Jerry Harmer

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