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New leader of Pheu Thai Party, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, daughter of Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, offers a traditional greeting known as a "wai" after her address at the party headquarters in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. Thailand’s ruling party has selected as its leader the daughter of the country’s divisive former prime minister, highlighting her family’s continuing influence more than two decades after her father entered politics.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Daughter of divisive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin named head of political party linked to him

By Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

A masked Thai anti-government protester holds a banner that reads "execute bad people" while gathering outside the Government House following a march rally Monday, Dec. 9, 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand. Desperate to defuse Thailand's deepening political crisis, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday said she is dissolving the lower house of Parliament and called for early elections. But the moves did nothing to stem a growing tide of more than 150,000 protesters vowing to overthrow her in one of the nation's largest demonstrations in years. (AP Photo/Wason Wanichakorn)

Thai prime minister dissolves Parliament, calls elections

By Jocelyn Gecker and Todd Pitman - Associated Press