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The prime minister of Thailand (Thai: นายกรัฐมนตรี; RTGS: Nayok Ratthamontri; IPA: [naː.jók rát.tʰà.mon.triː], literally 'chief minister of state') is the head of government of Thailand. The prime minister is also the chairman of the cabinet of Thailand and represents the government at home and the country abroad ...
Prime Minister Portrait Party Assumed office [2] Left office [2] Time in office (term) Time in office (total) 1. 3rd Plaek Phibunsongkhram (1897–1964) Khana Ratsadon (Military faction) 16 December 1938 1 August 1944 5 years, 229 days: 15 years, 25 days Conservative Party: 8 April 1948 16 September 1957 9 years, 161 days Seri Manangkhasila 2. 10th
The house's selection is usually based on the fact that either the prime minister is the leader of the largest political party in the lower house or the leader of the largest coalition of parties. In accordance with the 2017 Constitution, the Prime Minister can hold the office for no longer than eight years, consecutively or not.
February 17 – General Isarapong Noonpakdee, 32nd Minister of Justice and 28th Commander in Chief of the Royal Thai Army (b.1933). July 13 – Paritat Bulbon, racing driver (b. 1970). [8] November 30 – Surin Pitsuwan, diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2001) and Secretary General of ASEAN (b. 1949). [9]
Chart Thai deputy leader Somsak Prissananantakul and Ruam Jai Thai Chart Pattana leader Chettha Thanajaro said the next prime minister was nominated. Caretaker prime minister Somchai Wongsawat said PPP secretary-general Surapong Suebwonglee would notify the five parties who the PPP nominated, to take office again.
In the current system as laid out by the 2017 constitution, known as "mixed member apportionment (MMA)", the voter casts a single vote for a constituency MP, which is then also used in the calculation of the party list seats. This differs from the previous 2007 constitution, where the vote for constituency MP and party list MP were separate.
Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire former prime minister of Thailand, made a dramatic return home after more than a decade of self-imposed exile. Thaksin Shinawatra, 74 , was twice elected prime ...
This will be the third election under the 2017 constitution, which was implemented under the National Council for Peace and Order (the junta that took power in the 2014 Thai coup d'état), and the first after the expiration of the constitution's five-year transitory provision that gave the senate voting rights to choose the prime minister in a joint session of parliament.