37 Facts About Yingluck Shinawatra

Yingluck Shinawatra was removed from office on 7 May 2014 by a Constitutional Court decision.

Yingluck Shinawatra then became an executive in the businesses founded by her elder brother, Thaksin Shinawatra and later became the president of property developer SC Asset and managing director of Advanced Info Service.

Yingluck Shinawatra fled abroad shortly before he was convicted in absentia of using his position to increase his own wealth.

Yingluck Shinawatra has since lived in self-imposed exile to avoid his sentence in prison.

Yingluck Shinawatra campaigned on a platform of national reconciliation, poverty eradication, and corporate income tax reduction and won a landslide victory.

Yingluck Shinawatra was tried in 2016 but did not appear in court in August 2017 for the verdict.

Yingluck Shinawatra has become the chairwoman and legal representative of Shantou International Container Terminals Ltd since 12 December 2018, a Chinese port operator, operating in the Shantou Port area in eastern Guangdong.

Yingluck Shinawatra is the youngest of nine children of Loet Shinawatra and Yindi Ramingwong.

Yingluck Shinawatra's father was a businessman and member of parliament for Chiang Mai.

Yingluck Shinawatra grew up in Chiang Mai and attended Regina Coeli College, a private girls' school, for the lower secondary level, followed by Yupparaj College, a co-educational school, at the upper secondary level.

Yingluck Shinawatra graduated with a BA degree from the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, at Chiang Mai University in 1988 and received a MPA degree from Kentucky State University in 1991.

Yingluck Shinawatra later became the director of procurement and the director of operations.

Yingluck Shinawatra left as Deputy CEO of IBC in 2002, and became the CEO of Advanced Info Service, Thailand's largest mobile phone operator.

Yingluck Shinawatra was investigated by Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission regarding possible insider trading after she sold shares of her AIS stock for a profit prior to the sale of the Shin Corporation to Temasek Holdings.

Yingluck Shinawatra is a committee member and secretary of the Thaicom Foundation.

Yingluck Shinawatra was asked to become the party's leader, but she declined, saying that she had no desire to be prime minister and wanted to concentrate on business.

Yingluck Shinawatra promised to empower the Independent Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Thailand, the panel that the Democrat-led government had set up to investigate the killings.

However, Yingluck Shinawatra denied that the return of seized assets was a priority for the Pheu Thai party, and repeated that she had no intention of giving amnesty to any one person.

Abhisit claimed outright that Yingluck Shinawatra was lying and that amnesty to Thaksin actually was the Pheu Thai party's policy.

Yingluck Shinawatra described a 2020 vision for the elimination of poverty.

Yingluck Shinawatra promised to reduce the corporate income tax from 30 per cent to 23 per cent and then 20 per cent by 2013 and to raise the minimum wage to 300 baht per day and the minimum wage for university graduates to 15,000 baht per month.

Yingluck Shinawatra planned to provide free public Wi-Fi and a tablet PC to every schoolchild.

Yingluck Shinawatra quickly formed a coalition with the Chartthaipattana, Chart Pattana Puea Pandin, and Phalang Chon, and Mahachon, and New Democracy parties, giving her a total of 300 seats.

Key members of Yingluck Shinawatra's cabinet include former Interior Permanent Secretary Yongyuth Wichaidit as Interior Minister, Securities and Exchange Commission Secretary-General Thirachai Phuvanatnaranubala as Finance Minister, and former Defense Permanent Secretary General Yuthasak Sasiprapa as Defense Minister.

Absent from Yingluck Shinawatra's cabinet were Red Shirts who had spearheaded protests against the Democrat-led government.

Yingluck Shinawatra pledged to invest in long-term flood prevention projects, including the construction of drainage canals.

Opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva and military leaders called for Yingluck Shinawatra to declare a state of emergency, claiming that it would give the military greater authority to deal with embankment sabotage.

Yingluck Shinawatra refused to declare a state of emergency, saying that it would not improve flood management.

On 18 January 2012, Yingluck Shinawatra reshuffled her cabinet, assigning six cabinet members to new posts, naming ten new ministers and deputies and dismissing nine members of the government.

On 30 June 2013, the fifth reshuffle occurred in the cabinet of Yingluck Shinawatra, leading to changes in 18 cabinet posts.

Yingluck Shinawatra herself assumed the post of minister of defence in the reshuffle.

On 9 December 2013, Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved the country's parliament and called early elections in the face of anti-government protests.

Yingluck Shinawatra's passports were cancelled by the Junta controlled government, and she is rumoured to be in London and to have a UK passport.

Yingluck Shinawatra has been granted citizenship by the government of Serbia.

Yingluck Shinawatra's goals included improvement of trade relations and increased export business investments, and studying water resources management.

Yingluck Shinawatra has one son, Supasek, with her common law husband, Anusorn Amornchat.

Yingluck Shinawatra has received the following royal decorations in the Honours System of Thailand:.