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Nepo baby leaders are stifling south-east Asia

From Thailand to Indonesia, political dynasties illustrate the region’s failure to build robust and effective institutions
Thailand’s Thaksin Shinawatra and Paetongtarn Shinawatra and Indonesia Prabowo Subianto and Gibran Rakabuming Raka
The writer is director of the Asia-Pacific Programme at Chatham House

When 38-year-old Paetongtarn Shinawatra was sworn in as Thailand’s new Prime Minister last Sunday her accession marked three milestones.

First, she became the youngest-ever prime minister of this important Southeast Asian nation. Second, she brought the Shinawatra family back to power for the first time in a decade, after her aunt Yingluck Shinawatra was forced out by a judicial ruling in 2014 and her father Thaksin Shinawatra, a tycoon who used to own Manchester City, was removed in a 2006 coup. Third, her appointment means six of south-east Asia’s 10 nations will be ruled by family dynasties.

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