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Thai PM Paetongtarn sticks to past policies on handouts and projects, signalling continuity

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Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, known by her nickname "Ung Ing" and daughter of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, arrives to deliver the cabinet policy speech at the parliament chamber in Bangkok on September 12, 2024. (Photo by Chanakarn Laosarakham / AFP)

Ms Paetongtarn Shinawatra's speech laid out an economics-heavy agenda of a government keen to burnish its credentials on bread-and-butter issues.

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Continuity was a key theme when Thailand’s new prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Sept 12 presented her government’s policy proposals before Parliament.

In an hour-long speech, she

outlined priorities that hewed closely to those of her predecessor

Srettha Thavisin, who was

booted out by a Constitutional Court ruling

on Aug 14.

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