Suchart Tancharoen (born 11 February 1958) is a Thai politician from the

Pheu Thai Party The Pheu Thai Party (PT or PTP; , ) is a major conservative populist list of political parties in Thailand, political party in Thailand. It is the third incarnation of the Thai Rak Thai Party, a political party founded by former Prime Minister ...

. He is former First Deputy Speaker of the

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Political career

Suchart Tancharoen is a 9 times member of the

from

Chachoengsao Chachoengsao (, ) is a town ('' thesaban mueang'') in central Thailand, capital of Chachoengsao Province. It is on the banks of the Bang Pakong River. It includes ''tambon'' Na Mueang and parts of Ban Mai, Bang Tin Pet, Wang Takhian, and Sothon ...

. He used to be in many political parties, including the Democrat Party, Samakkhitham Party, Thai National Party,

Thai Rak Thai Party The Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT; , , ; "Thais Love Thais Party") was a list of political parties in Thailand, Thai political party founded in 1998. From 2001 to 2006, it was the ruling party under its founder, Prime Minister of Thailand, Prime Mini ...

He served as Deputy

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in 1992 and 1995 and became Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2005 and 2019. He previously held the position of deputy leader of two political parties: Thai Nation Party and the Thai Rak Thai Party. In 2007, he was suspended from political activity for 5 years because he was an executive committees of the Thai Rak Thai Party, which was dissolved in the 2006. His group moved to the Puea Pandin Party and in 2010 moved to join political activities with the

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 Ne ...

. on November 23, 2018, Suchart led more than 40 members of his Baan Rim Nam group to apply for membership in the

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 ...

and elected to be the First Deputy Speaker of the

after the 2019 general election. He join Pheu Thai Party in 2023

Honours

Suchart has received the following royal decorations in the

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of Thailand: * 1999 - Knight Grand Cordon (Special Class) of the Most Exalted

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* 1996 - Knight Grand Cordon (Special Class) of The Most Noble

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References

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