Thai property mogul Srettha Thavisin’s unlikely rise to prime minister

Srettha Thavisin, until recently chief of one of Thailand's biggest real estate developers, was on Tuesday voted inas prime minister at the head of an unlikely alliance of populists and pro-military parties after weeks of post-election deadlock. Srettha, 61, won a vote in parliament to become premier hours after the founder of his populist Pheu Thai Party, Thaksin Shinawatra, made a dramatic return to Thailand after 15 years of self-exile. "My only enemy is poverty and inequality," Srettha said last week.