Aug 16, Kathmandu- Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been elected as the new Prime Minister of Thailand. On Friday, the Parliament of Thailand elected the 37-year-old Shinawatra as the new Prime Minister of the country.

The Pheu Thai Party on Thursday selected Paetongtan as its replacement candidate after none of the other 10 parties in the coalition put forward an alternative.

The Pheu Thai Party decided to make Petongtarn, the third member of the Shinawatra dynasty, which is considered to be an influential family in Thailand's politics, as the prime minister and presented it to the parliament for approval through the parliamentary process on Friday.

Paetongtarn's father, Thaksin Shinawatra, and Phupu Yongling Shinawatra, have already served as prime ministers. He is the youngest leader in the history of Thailand's constitutional monarchy.

The state's constitutional court acquitted outgoing Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin after hearing a court case alleging that he had appointed a minister with a criminal conviction.

Outgoing Prime Minister Srettha's exit follows long-standing tensions between the military, royalist parties and populist parties linked to former prime minister Thaksin, a telecoms tycoon and one-time owner of Manchester City.