Paetongtarn will oversee the Culture Ministry, a move that may allow her to remain in the cabinet in the event a court suspends her from prime ministerial duties in a petition seeking her removal.
Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra revamped her cabinet, a move aimed at easing a political crisis that brought her government to the brink over her handling of a border dispute.
The new cabinet line-up includes Jatuporn Buruspat, a former bureaucrat, as the new Commerce Minister and several other new faces, according to a Royal Gazette notification endorsed by King Maha Vajiralongkorn. Senior Pheu Thai politician Phumtham Wechayachai was moved to the Interior Ministry from the Defence Ministry.
