“I promise to you all that I will safeguard Thailand with my life,” the 59-year-old prime minister said. “Nationalism is in the heart of everybody in the Bhumjaithai party,” he told reporters as the results trickled in last month. Three years later, Thaksin’s populist Thai Rak Thai party was dissolved by a court order. Mr Anutin was also given a five-year ban from politics. And no democratically elected Thai prime minister has completed a full term since Thaksin in 2005.
Source: Bangkok Post March 19, 2026 07:52 UTC