“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