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## Video: Thailand’s New Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra Shares Initial Reaction to Being Elected

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_Published 2024-08-16. Paetongtarn Shinawatra, 37, is the second woman to serve as Thailand’s Prime Minister and she follows two former Prime Ministers from her family. Former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, her billionaire father who was in the post from 2001 to 2006 before being pushed out in a military coup, returned to Thailand from 15 years of self-imposed exile last year and is expected now to play a bigger role in Thai politics._


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## Transcript

So excited today because I can't really hold my breath at all. I don't know why. Normally, I get onstage very often and I don't get excited at all. But today is like my hands are shaking. So, what I'm trying to tell you guys that how I feel right now, and then I think my words are like mumbling a lot. Sorry about that. There's a lot going through my mind, especially right now. That's why I said that I'm so excited right now. 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 result come out and I felt very bad because I didn't expect the result to be like that at all.

No. No. The Wednesday that you asked. So yes, on Wednesday, I I heard the result because I was on a plane flying back from from China. So when I, you know, turn turn on my phone and then I read the news, I felt that almost like I didn't know it's going to happen like this. So yes, I was very sad. I got back up again and then I talked to Curt 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. And I just I hope that I can do my best. To, you know, make the country go forward. That's what I that's what I try to do.

And right now, of course, today is I feel very honored and I feel very happy. To do my best in every day and in every opportunities that I have. That's I think that's make 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 I will be fine.

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