On 18 January 2012 , Yingluck reshuffled her cabinet , assigning six cabinet members to new posts , naming ten new ministers and deputies and dismissing nine members of the government . The regrouping was assessed as a step to increase loyalty to the head of government and a reaction to discontent with the government 's management of the flood disaster . Especially noted was the choice of Nalinee Taveesin ( Minister in the PM 's Office ) , who is on a US blacklist for alleged business links to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe , and Nattawut Saikua ( Deputy Minister of Agriculture ) , the first leader of the United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship ( UDD , or " Red Shirts " ) in the government . Yingluck 's first cabinet had not incorporated any " Red Shirts " activists
flood disaster
2011 Thailand floods
Yingluck Shinawatra