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Chaithawat Tulathon
Chaithawat Tulathon (; born Chaithawat Sae-Kou, , 15 October 1978) is a Thai former politician who served as Leader of the Opposition (Thailand), Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Move Forward Party from 2023 to 2024. A former member of the House of Representatives (Thailand), House of Representatives, he previously served as the party's secretary-general from 2020 to 2023. Born in Songkhla province, Songkhla Province, Chaithawat was educated as an engineer before entering journalism as the founder of Same Sky Books, a political magazine. An ally of Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, Chaithwat supported the pro-democracy Future Forward Party. After the party was dissolved, he was asked to join the newly created Move Forward Party (MFP) by party leader Pita Limjaroenrat. Chaithawat accepted, serving as the party's Secretary-General. In the 2023 Thai general election, 2023 general election, MFP won the largest number of seats; Chaithawat himself won a seat in the House of Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leader Of The Opposition (Thailand)
The Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives (; ), more commonly described as the Leader of the Opposition, is the politician in the politics of Thailand who leads the main minority party in the House of Representatives. The Leader of the Opposition is the leader of the largest political party in the House of Representatives that is not in government and the member of the party do not hold the position of speaker or deputy speaker of the House of Representatives. Following the Westminster-style parliamentary system, Thailand has had an official Leader of the Opposition since 1975. Under the 2017 Constitution the Leader of the Opposition was given an official role within the Thai political system. The constitution stipulates that the Leader of the Opposition must be selected after the Prime Minister and the Cabinet has taken office. To be nominated as candidate one must be the leader of the largest political party with no member holding any ministerial positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senate Of Thailand
The Senate of Thailand is the upper house of the National Assembly of Thailand, Thailand's legislative branch. In accordance with the 2017 constitution of Thailand, the Senate is a non-partisan legislative chamber, composed of 200 members. Senators are indirectly voted by the candidates from 20 professional and social groups and serve five year terms. In practice, the chamber is split into factions with political ties. Thailand has not always had a senate. Some constitutions provided for senate, with senators being fully appointed, half-elected, and fully elected. Most recently, between 2014 and 2019, the senate was abolished and replaced by unicameral National Legislative Assembly. History The idea of bicameralism first permeated Thai politics with the Constitution of 1946, when the government of Pridi Banomyong introduced a Senate modelled on the British House of Lords. For the first time, an upper house came into existence in Thailand. The Senate was to be fully elected, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palang Pracharat Party
Palang Pracharath Party (, , ; ) is a Thai right-wing conservative civil-military political party with ties to the National Council for Peace and Order, the military junta that ruled the country after the 2014 coup. It was established in 2018 by Chuan Chuchan () and Suchart Jantarachotikul () as a "party of power" to support Prayut Chan-o-cha in 2019 Thai general election. In the 2019 Thai general election, Palang Pracharath's candidate for prime minister was incumbent prime minister and military junta leader, Prayut Chan-o-cha. Although Palang Pracharath came 2nd in the polls, it successfully nominated Prayut and formed a coalition government with votes from 249 senators, and MPs from the Democrat and Bhumjaithai parties. Prior to the 2023 general election, several former members of Palang Pracharath split off to form the United Thai Nation Party, and were later joined by Prayut Chan-o-cha. The party splits again in 2024 after the Paetongtarn cabinet reshuffled. As a result, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Thai Nation Party
The United Thai Nation Party () is an ultra-conservative nationalist Thai political party founded on 31 March 2021 by Seksakon Atthawong, the former Deputy Minister to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. In the run-up to the 2023 general election, then Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha joined the party on 9 January 2023 as its candidate for the position. The party emerged as the fifth largest party in Thailand, winning 36 seats in the House of Representatives and 12.55% of the vote. The party has been described as ultra-conservative, pro-military, and monarchist. In 2023, party spokesperson Akkradech Wongpitakroj claimed that the party espoused modern conservatism. Currently, it is the second largest party in the ruling government coalition since 2023. History Founding Period (2021) United Thai Nation Party is a political party, No. 5/2021, registered on 31 March 2021, with Seksakon Atthawong as the founder of the party. There party’s first headquarter was established at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bhumjaithai Party
Bhumjaithai Party (BJT; , ) is a major conservative populist political party in Thailand. It was founded on 5 November 2008, in anticipation of the 2 December 2008 Constitutional Court ruling that dissolved its ''de facto'' predecessor, the Neutral Democratic Party (PMT), along with the People's Power Party (PPP) and the Thai Nation Party. After the dissolutions, former members of the PMT and the Friends of Newin (KPW) faction of the PPP, defected to this party. Currently, it is the second largest party in the opposition. Bhumjaithai has a populist platform, since some of the policies were drawn from Thaksin Shinawatra's populist Thai Rak Thai party and its second incarnation, the PPP. The party has a strong base in Buriram Province. History On 15 December 2008, the party endorsed the Democrat Party, forming a six-party coalition government under Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. The party's "''de facto''" leader and power broker behind joining the Democrat-led coalitio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pita Limjaroenrat And Chaithawat Tulathon, May 2023 Press Conference
Pita ( or ; ) or pitta (British English), also known as Arabic bread (, ), as Lebanese bread and as kmaj (from the Persian ''kumaj''), is a family of yeast- leavened round flatbreads baked from wheat flour, common in the Mediterranean, Levant, and neighboring areas. It includes the widely known version with an interior pocket. In the United Kingdom, the term is used for pocket versions such as the Greek pita, used for barbecues as a souvlaki wrap. The Western name ''pita'' may sometimes be used to refer to various other types of flatbreads that have different names in their local languages, such as numerous styles of Arab ''khubz'' (). Etymology The first mention of the word in English cited in the Oxford English Dictionary was in 1936. The English word is borrowed from Modern Greek (, ), in turn from Byzantine Greek (attested in 1108), possibly from Ancient Greek () or (), both meaning , or from (, ), which may have passed to Latin as cf. pizza. In Levantine Arabic it ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Thai Coup D'état
On 22 May 2014, the Royal Thai Armed Forces, led by General Prayut Chan-o-cha, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army, launched a coup d'état, the twelfth since the country's first coup in 1932, against the caretaker government following six months of political crisis. The military established a junta called the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) to govern the nation. The coup ended the political conflict between the military-led regime and democratic power, which had been present since the 2006 Thai coup d'état known as the "unfinished coup". Seven years later, it developed into the 2020–2021 Thai protests to reform the monarchy of Thailand. After dissolving the government and the Senate of Thailand, the NCPO vested executive and legislative powers in its leader and ordered the judicial branch to operate under its directives. In addition, it partially repealed the 2007 constitution, save the second chapter that concerned the king, declared martial law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaitawat Tulathon (cropped)
Chaithawat Tulathon (; born Chaithawat Sae-Kou, , 15 October 1978) is a Thai former politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Move Forward Party from 2023 to 2024. A former member of the House of Representatives, he previously served as the party's secretary-general from 2020 to 2023. Born in Songkhla Province, Chaithawat was educated as an engineer before entering journalism as the founder of Same Sky Books, a political magazine. An ally of Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, Chaithwat supported the pro-democracy Future Forward Party. After the party was dissolved, he was asked to join the newly created Move Forward Party (MFP) by party leader Pita Limjaroenrat. Chaithawat accepted, serving as the party's Secretary-General. In the 2023 general election, MFP won the largest number of seats; Chaithawat himself won a seat in the House of Representatives as a party-list candidate. Subsequently, the MFP attempted to form a government coalition with fellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triam Udom Suksa School
Triam Udom Suksa School (, ; lit.'university-preparatory school') is a State school, state school in central Bangkok, Thailand. It admits Education in Thailand, upper-secondary students (''mathayom'' 4–6, equivalent to grades 10–12) and has the largest yearly enrollment in the country. Founded in 1938 as a University-preparatory school, preparatory school for Chulalongkorn University, the school has long been regarded as the best secondary school in Thailand, and attracts students from all over the country in its highly competitive entrance examinations. History The founding of Triam Udom Suksa School relates to the revised National Education Plan of BE 2479 (1936 CE), which imposed four and six years of primary education, primary and secondary education respectively, with an additional two years of pre-collegiate schooling required for students who were to pursue higher education. This pre-collegiate level was to be initially provided by the students' prospective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatyaiwittayalai School
The Hatyaiwittayalai School is a high school in Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand. Curriculum References *http://www.hatyaiwit.ac.th/ Schools in Thailand 1945 establishments in Thailand {{Thailand-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitutional Court Of Thailand
The Constitutional Court (, , ), officially the Constitutional Court of the Kingdom of Thailand, is a Thai court created by the 1997 constitution with jurisdiction over the constitutionality of parliamentary acts, royal decrees, draft legislation, as well as the appointment and removal of public officials and issues regarding political parties. The current court is part of the judicial branch of the Thai national government. The court, along with the 1997 constitution, was dissolved and replaced by a Constitutional Tribunal in 2006 following the 2006 Thai coup d'état. While the Constitutional Court had 15 members, seven from the judiciary and eight selected by a special panel, the Constitution Tribunal had nine members, all from the judiciary. A similar institution, consisting of nine members, was again established by the 2007 Constitution. The Constitutional Court has provoked much public debate, both regarding the court's jurisdiction and composition as well as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
