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Somchai Wongsawat
สมชาย วงศ์สวัสดิ์
Somchai in 2008
26th Prime Minister of Thailand
In office 18 September 2008 – 2 December 2008[a]
Monarch
Bhumibol Adulyadej
Preceded by
Samak Sundaravej
Succeeded by
Chavarat Charnvirakul (acting)
Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
In office 6 February 2008 – 9 September 2008
Prime Minister
Samak Sundaravej
Minister of Defence
In office 18 September 2008 – 2 December 2008
Prime Minister
himself
Preceded by
Samak Sundaravej
Succeeded by
Prawit Wongsuwan
Minister of Education
In office 6 February 2008 – 9 September 2008
Prime Minister
Samak Sundaravej
Preceded by
Wijit Srisa-arn
Succeeded by
Srimuang Chareonsiri
Personal details
Born
(1947-08-31) 31 August 1947 (age 76) Chawang, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Siam (now Chang Klang, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand)
Somchai Wongsawat (Thai: สมชาย วงศ์สวัสดิ์, pronounced[sǒm.t͡ɕʰāːjwōŋ.sā.wàt]ⓘ; born 31 August 1947) is a Thai politician who was the prime minister of Thailand in 2008 and a former executive member of the People's Power Party (PPP) whose political rights were disenfranchised by the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) for five years.
Prior to entering electoral politics, he had served civil service and judicial service, having been appointed Permanent Secretary of Justice (the highest non-elected position in the civil service) in 2000 by the government of Chuan Leekpai. Following his retirement from office in 2006 owing to the pensionable age, he entered politics after the 2006 coup unseating the government of his brother-in-law, Thaksin Shinawatra. He joined the PPP which won the December 2007 parliamentary elections, becoming Minister of Education and Senior Deputy Prime Minister. After the premiership of Samak Sundaravej had been terminated by the ConCourt for contravening the conflict of interests law, Somchai was successfully nominated Prime Minister. His government had to deal with the 2008 Thailand political crisis as well as the global financial crisis of 2008, and the PPP was eventually dissolved by the ConCourt and its executive members, including Somchai, were prohibited from politics for five years for vote-buying committed by Yongyuth Tiyapairat.
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a decision removing Samak Sundaravej from the prime ministership. SomchaiWongsawat, Thaksin's brother-in-law, succeeded Samak Sundaravej as prime minister...
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these have not been substantiated. In a third incident, Muslim lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit disappeared, allegedly abducted and killed by police for his...
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Sundaravej was replaced by SomchaiWongsawat, the People’s Alliance for Democracy refused to stop their protests, claiming that Somchai was a proxy for Thaksin...
including Tanin Kraivixien, Chuan Leekpai, Samak Sundaravej, and SomchaiWongsawat, as well as many other ministers and Bank of Thailand governors. Former...
Sundaravej to be ousted, and SomchaiWongsawat was elected as the new prime minister. Shortly after his election, Prime Minister Wongsawat and the PPP was found...
leader of the Pheu Thai Party, brief terms as Health Minister under SomchaiWongsawat, Interior Minister under Samak Sundaravej, Justice Minister under...
time banning their chief executives. The incumbent Prime Minister, SomchaiWongsawat, was then removed along with several other members of the Cabinet...
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to 2002. After holding the position of deputy prime minister in SomchaiWongsawat's cabinet, on 7 October 2008, he resigned, admitting partial responsibility...
after the Constitutional Court of Thailand banned then-Prime Minister SomchaiWongsawat from politics for five years. In March 2009, Thaksin Shinawatra claimed...
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