Somsak Kiatsuranont

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Somsak Kiatsuranont ( Thai : สม ศักดิ์ เกียรติ สุร นนท์ ; born June 27, 1954 in Khon Kaen ) is a Thai politician. From 2011 to 2013 he was Speaker of the House of Representatives and President of the Thai National Assembly . He belongs to the Pheu-Thai party .

Life

Somsak Kiatsuranont studied engineering with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Khon Kaen University and a master's degree in water resources engineering from Chulalongkorn University . He states that his profession is businessman.

Somsak was from 1983 to 1988, and from 1992 until 2006 and again from 2007 until the dissolution of Parliament in 2013 (a total of 10 legislative sessions) Member of the Thai House of Representatives , where he always has a constituency of northeastern Thai province of Khon Kaen represented. First he was a member of the Social Action Party , in 1992 he switched to the New Hope Party (NAP), and in 1995 he returned to SAP. From 1988 to 1990 he worked for the secretariat of the Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan , in 1992 he was advisor to the Minister of the Interior ( Chavalit Yongchaiyudh ), in 1995 to the Minister of Agriculture (Montri Pongpanich) and in 1996 to the Minister of Commerce. From 1996 to 2001 he was Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. During this time he was nicknamed "Lord of the Hammer" ( ขุน ค้อน , Khun Khon ) for his courageous use of the presidium hammer to call members to order. In 2001 he joined the Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT) of Thaksin Shinawatra and became its advisor.

He was not affected by the exclusion of leading TRT officials from political office after the 2006 coup . Therefore he could be re-elected to parliament at the end of 2007, this time as a representative of the People's Power Party (PPP), which was in fact a substitute organization for the TRT. From January to August 2008 he was again Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives. He resigned to become Minister of Culture in the Samak Sundaravej government . After his impeachment in September 2008 Somsak moved to the head of the Ministry of Justice, which he headed during the two months incumbent Somchai Wongsawat government . Then the PPP was dissolved by the constitutional court and the government lost its majority. Somsak was able to keep his parliamentary seat and joined the Pheu Thai Party (PTP), which in turn was a successor organization to the PPP. In this party he acted as deputy chairman from 2010.

The PTP won the July 2011 general election and Somsak was elected House Speaker four weeks later, on August 2, 2011 . Confirmed the following day by King Bhumibol Adulyadej . As speaker of the larger parliamentary chamber, he was also ex officio president of the entire national assembly according to the constitution at the time. Somsak Kiatsuranont was considered a politician who was also acceptable to the Thai Democratic Party . He had largely held back during the 2010 riots in Bangkok .

During a debate on an amnesty law on June 1, 2012, several members of the Democratic Party of Somsak attacked Kiatsuranont and fought with members of the Pheu-Thai faction. Somsak was only able to flee with the help of the police from the parliament, which was then besieged by around 2,000 members of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD).

In December 2013, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved the House of Representatives and announced new elections. However, this did not happen; in May 2014 the military staged a coup and also dissolved the Senate.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Biography of Somsak Kiatsuranont ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mp.parliament.go.th
  2. ↑ Unbiased gavel in the house? In: Bangkok Post , August 4, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b Members of Parliament elected President of Parliament. In: ORF . August 2, 2011, accessed August 2, 2011 .
  4. ^ HM the King appoints House speaker. In: Bangkok Post . August 3, 2011, accessed September 8, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Thailand threatens new unrest. In: The Standard . June 4, 2012, Retrieved June 6, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Thailand elects new parliament in February. In: Zeit Online . December 9, 2013
  7. ^ Putsch in Thailand - Thailand's military dissolves parliament. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 24, 2014

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Note on Thai names : This article addresses people by their first name.
personal data
SURNAME Somsak Kiatsuranont
ALTERNATIVE NAMES สม ศักดิ์ เกียรติ สุร นนท์ (Thai)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION thai politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Khon Kaen