Thai PM s suspension could spell end of Shinawatra clan s era of political dominance

BANGKOK - As an ashen-faced Paetongtarn Shinawatra breezed past waiting reporters after a July 1 Cabinet briefing just hours before a Constitutional Court decision that temporarily suspended her from office, her influential father Thaksin Shinawatra also opted to keep a low profile while arriving for his separate court hearings over charges of royal defamation around the same time.

The concurrent legal challenges facing both father and daughter portend not just a symbolic turning point for the immediate future of Thailand’s government, but also the longer-term fortunes of the country’s most prominent political family and its one-time electoral powerhouse Pheu Thai Party.

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