Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra re-elected
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-03-09 14:33

Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra gives a traditional Thai greeting at Parliament in Bangkok March 9, 2005. Thai Parliament approved Thaksin for a second four-year term, following the former telecommunications tycoon's landslide victory at the polls last month. [Reuters]

Members of parliament raise their hands to signal an acceptance of Thaksin Shinawatra's (C) nomination to become Thailand's Prime Minister in Bangkok March 9, 2005. Thailand's Parliament approved Thaksin for a second four-year term, following the former telecommunications tycoon's landslide victory at the polls last month. [Reuters]

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra smiles while answering questions from the media prior to his Thai Rak Thai party vote at Parliament house in Bangkok, March 9, 2005. Thaksin was formally re-elected by parliament's lower house as premier of Thailand, making him the Kingdom's first democratically elected prime minister to hold a second term. [Reuters]

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