Prawit at the ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting, Singapore in 2018
Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
In office 30 August 2014 – 1 September 2023
Prime Minister
Prayut Chan-o-cha
Acting Prime Minister of Thailand
In office 24 August 2022 – 30 September 2022
Monarch
Vajiralongkorn
Prime Minister
Prayut Chan-o-cha[a][b]
Minister of Defence
In office 30 August 2014 – 10 July 2019
Prime Minister
Prayut Chan-o-cha
Preceded by
Yingluck Shinawatra
Succeeded by
Prayut Chan-o-cha
In office 20 December 2008 – 9 August 2011
Prime Minister
Abhisit Vejjajiva
Preceded by
Somchai Wongsawat
Succeeded by
Yuthasak Sasiprapha
Leader of the Palang Pracharath Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 June 2020
Preceded by
Uttama Savanayana
Member of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 14 May 2023
Constituency
Party-list
President of National Olympic Committee of Thailand
Incumbent
Assumed office 5 April 2017
Preceded by
Yuthasak Sasiprapha
Commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army
In office 1 October 2004 – 30 September 2005
Preceded by
Chaiyasit Shinawatra
Succeeded by
Sonthi Boonyaratglin
Personal details
Born
(1945-08-11) 11 August 1945 (age 78) Bangkok, Thailand
Political party
Palang Pracharath (since 2020)
Relatives
Patcharawat Wongsuwan (brother)
Alma mater
Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy
National Defence College
Military service
Allegiance
Thailand
Branch/service
Royal Thai Army
Years of service
1969–2005
Rank
General
Battles/wars
Vietnam War
Laotian Civil War
Communist insurgency in Thailand
Prawit Wongsuwon (also spelled Wongsuwan; Thai: ประวิตร วงษ์สุวรรณ, RTGS: Prawit Wongsuwan, pronounced[prà.wítwōŋ.sù.wān]; born 11 August 1945) is a Thai politician who served as the First Deputy Prime Minister from 2014 to 2023, Minister of Defence from 2008 to 2011 during the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and from 2014 to 2019 in the first government of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. He also previously served as the deputy chairman of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), a military junta which ruled Thailand from 2014 to 2019. From 2004 to 2005 he was the commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army (RTA).
In 2022, he briefly became Acting Prime Minister of Thailand after Prayut was briefly suspended from carrying out his duties as Prime Minister of Thailand by the Constitutional Court of Thailand after the court agreed to take up the case on whether Prayut had exceeded the constitutional term limit for the office of Prime Minister. The Constitutional Court of Thailand later ruled on 30 September 2022 that Prayut had not exceeded his term limit and may continue to serve as Prime Minister. Prayut was thereafter able to resume carrying out duties as Prime Minister as a result of the court ruling and Prawit ceased to become the Acting Prime Minister of Thailand on the same date of the court ruling.[1][2]
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^Govt spokesman: Prawit caretaker PM now Prayut suspended
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