Nam Thai party

The Nam Thai Party ( Thai : พรรค นำ ไทย - "Dynamic Thai Party" or "Thailand's Leading Party") was a party in Thailand that existed from 1994 to 1997.

The party was founded in July 1994 on the initiative of Amnuay Virawan ( นาย อำนวย วีร วรรณ ), who had recently resigned from the New Hope party and had also given up his post as deputy prime minister under Chuan Leekpai . With the founding of the party, Amnuay pursued the goal of modernizing Thailand. To do this, he brought together a group of candidates who had experience in business, administration and science. Prominent members included Transport Minister Vinai Sompong and Foreign Minister Prasong Soonsiri , who also left the government and left the Palang Dharma party . The Nam Thai party was also supported by former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun , who was not party to any party .

In the July 1995 elections, the Nam Thai Party won 18 seats in the country's 319-seat parliament with 6.3% of the vote . She was accepted into the seven-party coalition of Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa . With Amnuay Virawan the party provided a deputy prime minister (responsible for international economic relations), with Kasem S. Kasemsri the foreign minister , with Sorachai Montrivat the deputy interior minister and with Amnuay Yossuk the deputy trade minister.

Nam Thai was not successful in the capital Bangkok , but was more successful in rural areas such as the northeast of the country (especially the province of Khon Kaen ) and the central Thai basin. In the early elections in 1996, she could no longer win a seat. In 1997 it broke up.

Sukhumbhand Paribatra , who later joined the Democratic Party and became Governor of Bangkok in 2005, began his political career with the Nam Thai Party.

literature

Michael Leifer: Dictionary of the modern politics of South-East Asia . London: Routledge 1996. ISBN 0-415-13821-3 . Article: "Nam Thai Party".