Thita Rangsitpol Manitkul

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Thita Rangsitpol Manitkul ( Thai ฐิ ฏา รังสิต พล มานิต กุล , RTGS Thita Rangsitphon Manitkun ; * November 8, 1966 in Bangkok as Thitiya Rangsitpol , ฐิติ ยา รังสิต พล ) is a Thai army officer (lieutenant colonel) and politician who was a member of the. Between 2001 and 2005 Thai House of Representatives was.

Life

Thita grew up in Bangkok . Her father Sukavich Rangsitpol was chairman of the board of Caltex Oil Thailand , governor of the state highway administration ETA and between 1994 and 1997 as a member of the New Hope party, Thai education minister and deputy prime minister.

After attending the Watthana Witthayalai School, she attended the experimental school of the Srinakharinwirot University from 1981 . She completed a degree in economics at Chulalongkorn University in 1987 with a bachelor's degree . In the meantime, she was an exchange student at the University of Colorado Boulder Business School . In 1988, she received an MBA from the University of Dallas .

In 2005 she married Sitthinun Manitkul, who is director of the National Security Council's Strategic Internal Security Bureau.

military

In 1988 she was employed with the rank of lieutenant in the Department of Military Attachés of the Department of International Relations at the Headquarters of the High Command of the Thai Armed Forces . The following year he was promoted to first lieutenant . In 1990, she was appointed captain of the Department of Foreign Military Attachés in the International Relations Office at the High Command Headquarters. Two years later she was promoted to major .

She then moved to the Thai Ministry of Defense , where she was Chavalit Yongchaiyudh's first spokesperson from 1995 to 1997 .

There Manitkul successfully tried to introduce the Thai Military Wages Act, which awards conscripts a wage corresponding to the minimum wage applicable in Thailand.

In 1996 she retired from military service with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

politics

In 1997 she became deputy spokeswoman for the New Hope party founded by Chavalit Yongchaiyudh , and two years later she became deputy general secretary of the same party.

In 2001 she was elected to the Thai House of Representatives from the New Hope Party's list. From 2001 to 2002, she was Deputy Secretary to Defense Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh. During the same period she was a member of the Women's and Youth Committee of the Thai House of Representatives. She was also a member of the House Defense Committee from 2001 to 2005.

When most MPs from the New Hope Party - including party leader Chavalit Yongchaiyudh - converted to the ruling Thai-Rak-Thai party of Thaksin Shinawatra in 2002, Thita did not want to go with them. Instead, she joined the opposition Democratic Party .

A year later she became a member of the House Defense Committee and was also vice-chair of the Internal Affairs Committee. In 2004 she became Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party. In the 2005 general election, the Democrats suffered a heavy defeat and Thita lost her parliamentary seat.

Awards

Thita received two medals in the system of Thai decorations :

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Tom Wingfield: Democratization and economic crisis in Thailand. In: Edmund Terence Gomez: Political Business in East Asia. Routledge, London / New York 2002, pp. 250-300, at p. 269.
  3. ↑ ศิษย์ เก่า ที่ สร้าง ชื่อเสียง. sites.google.com, accessed February 19, 2019 (Thai).
  4. ↑ a b library from parliament.go.th ; accessed on February 19, 2019
  5. ↑ นาย สิทธิ นั น ท์ มานิต กุล ผู้ อำนวย การ สำนัก ยุทธศาสตร์ ความ มั่นคง ภายใน ประเทศ. Office of the National Security Council, 2011, accessed February 19, 2019 (Thai, the title mentioned here is the caption for the picture of Sitthinun Manitkul).
  6. ↑ โสม ชบา จ๊ะ จ๋า 19/08/56. thairath.co.th, August 19, 2013, accessed February 19, 2019 .
  7. ↑ การ ปฏิรูป วิธี การ เกณฑ์ ทหาร กระทรวง กลาโหม ประเทศไทย ๒๕๔๐. gotoknow.org, accessed February 19, 2019 (Thai).
  8. ^ A b Ministry of Defense - Thailand. govserv.org, April 24, 2018, accessed February 19, 2019 (Thai).
  9. ^ Yoshinori Nishizaki: New Wine in an Old Bottle: Female Politicians, Family Rule, and Democratization in Thailand . In: The Journal of Asian Studies . tape 77 , no. 2 . Cambridge University Press , May 11, 2018, ISSN  0021-9118 , p. 375-403 , doi : 10.1017 / S002191181700136X ( cambridge.org [accessed June 30, 2019]): “In the supplement to the article (Supplementary materials): Appendix. A list of Thai female MPs elected since 1975 and their kinship ties (arranged in the alphabetical order of their first names). Link to the supplement "
  10. ↑ King Prajadhipok's Institute (Ed.): Thai Politics. Global and Local Perspectives. King Prajadhipok's Institute Yearbook, Volume 2, 2002, p. 518.
Note on Thai names : This article addresses people by their first name.
personal data
SURNAME Thita Manitkul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thita Rangsitpol Manitkul (full name); Thitiya Rangsitpol (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Thai politician and MP in the House of Representatives
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bangkok