Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of former president Thaksin, won the support of 319 of the 488 Thai legislators.
Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra survived a vote without confidence in Parliament, defeating a challenge of the opposition parties which accused him of being a puppet of his father, the former previous first of Thaksin Shinawatra.
After a two-day debate in which the opposition attacked the management of Paetongtarn, 38, of the economy and national security, as well as its inexperience, the deputies voted the motion of non-confidence of 319 votes to 162 Wednesday, with seven abstentions.
Paetongtarn thanked his supporters after winning the vote.
“All the votes, both for and against, will be a force that will lead me and the cabinet to continue working hard for people,” she wrote on Facebook.
The movement arrives at a bad time for Paetongtarn. Public confidence in the ability of his coalition government to solve national problems is weakat only 38.55%.
His father, Thaksin, was the most influential and controversial politician in modern Thai history. He returned to the kingdom in 2023 after 15 years of exile.
Thaksin served a few months of an eight-year sentence in prison for historic corruption and abuse of electricity in a police hospital before being forgiven by the king, fueling rumors of an agreement of the back-shop to treat him indulgently.
The 75 -year -old man remains popular among the millions of poor Thai people who prospered under his rule from 2001 to 2006, but he is despised by the conservative elite of the kingdom, who considers him corrupt and manipulator.
Paetongtarn became Prime Minister last year at the head of a coalition government led by the Thai party of Pheu, the last incarnation of the political movement founded by Thaksin, after the holder Srettha Thavisin was thrown by an order of the court.
In addition to being the youngest person to take leadership, Paetongtarn is the second Prime Minister of Thailand after his aunt, which was withdrawn during a coup in 2014.
The shadow of Thaksin is looming large
During the debate on censorship, Rangsiman Rome, a frank legislator with the main party of the opposition people, accused Paetongtarn of preferential engineering treatment for his father.
“You have concluded an agreement, a demon affair, to get your father better conditions than other prisoners,” he told Parliament.
“The condition was that your father will not be in prison for a single day.”
Paetongtarn denied this allegation, stressing that she had become a Prime Minister several months after the royal forgiveness of her father.
Thaksin has since spoken openly about government politics, but said on several occasions that he only offers advice from girls.
Opposition deputies also accused Paetongtarn of avoiding taxes and misunderstanding the case of 40 Uighurs returned to China at the end of last month.
The repatriation of Uighurs has caused an international condemnation and led the United States to impose visa bans on certain Thai officials.
