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BANGKOK, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Thailand's new cabinet, packed with supporters of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, was sworn in by King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Wednesday, marking the return of elected government after a 2006 coup.
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, who admitted before the Dec. 23 poll he was a proxy for Thaksin, doubled as defence minister -- a slap in the face for the generals who led the coup and an indicator of how low their political star has fallen.
"Don't let the country down," the revered monarch told Samak and the 35 ministers in an audience at his Bangkok palace.
"You have sworn to work for the public, and you must carry out those pledges and make them successful."
Other important posts went to top officials of the People Power Party (PPP), the successor to Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thais) party, banned after the coup for electoral fraud.
Despite an army-led campaign to discredit Thaksin, his mainly rural supporters flocked to vote in the December election, pushing the PPP to just short of a clear majority and making it the dominant force in a six-party coalition.
The European Union said it welcomed "the return of democracy in Thailand" and looked "forward to close and productive relations with this new government".
Former Thaksin spokesman Surapong Suebwonglee, a doctor whose family owns a network of weight-loss clinics, became finance minister and Thaksin's Oxford-educated lawyer, Noppadon Pattama, foreign minister.
Mingkwan Sangsuwan, formerly a senior marketing executive at Toyota's Thai operations, took the commerce portfolio with a remit to direct microeconomic policy.
Thaksin's brother-in-law, Somchai Wongsawat, became one of Samak's six deputy prime ministers -- and in all probability the conduit through which Thaksin will exert his influence from exile in London and Hong Kong.
Thaksin opponents are already dubbing it a "puppet cabinet".
"Most cabinet decisions will be made outside of Government House -- both domestically and overseas," Suriyasai Katasila, who led mass street protests against Thaksin in late 2005 and 2006, told reporters.
His comments raised the prospect of a revival of the protest movement that brought more than 100,000 people to the streets of Bangkok at its height to accuse Thaksin of being corrupt, abusive and disrespectful to the monarchy.
Analysts say the protests and subsequent coup were also the Bangkok-based royalist and military elite reacting to the unprecedented power of Thaksin, an ethnic Chinese provincial billionaire whose popularity was built on lavish rural handouts.
Thaksin has been cleared of any insult to the crown, but is facing one corruption charge relating to his wife's purchase of a prime piece of Bangkok real estate while in office. (additional reporting by Ingrid Melander in Brussels) (Editing by Ed Cropley)
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