Abhisit Vejjajiva

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Full Name	Abhisit Vejjajiva
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Aug 3, 1964(1964-08-03)
Age	60
Birthplace	Newcastle Upon Tyne
Country	Thailand
Birth City	Newcastle Upon Tyne
Horoscope	Capricorn

Abhisit Vejjajiva Biography

Abhisit Vejjajiva is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on August 3, 1964 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Thailand. Abhisit also has two sisters: child psychiatrist Alisa Wacharasindhu and author Ngarmpun Vejjajiva. One of Abhisit’s first cousins, Suranand Vejjajiva was a cabinet minister under Thaksin’s Thai Rak Thai party and served as the Prime Minister’s Secretary General under Yingluck Shinawatra. Suranand’s father, Nissai Vejjajiva served as the ambassador to various countries between the 1960s to 1980s and is the older brother of Abhisit’s father, Athasit.

Abhisit began his political career in the 1992 general elections that followed the coup, becoming a Bangkok MP for the Democrat Party. He was re-elected to the same seat in the 1995 and 1996 general elections. In the elections of 2001 and 2005, he returned to parliament as a Party List MP for the Democrat Party. He has served as Democrat Party spokesman, Government spokesman, Prime Minister’s Deputy-Secretary General for Political Affairs, Chairman of the House Education Affairs Committee, and Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office.

During his administration as Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office, he was responsible for the national education act of 1999.

Abhisit’s government saw unemployment increase by 63 percent. Thailand’s government budget went into deficit for the first time since 2003. By 2010, the government’s debt had bloomed and reached 4.8% of GDP, the largest budget deficit since the government of Chuan Leekpai. This was likely due to the decades of tense political situation in the country. To help the people, Abhisit subsidised the price of diesel, LPG cooking gas, and household electricity. Public bus and train journeys were provided for free.

Abhisit’s father, Athasit (อรรถสิทธิ์) Vejjajiva, is a former president of Mahidol University and a member of the Royal Institute of Thailand. After the National Peace Keeping Council seized power in a military coup in 1991, the military junta appointed Abhisit’s father Deputy Minister of Public Health.

Abhisit Vejjajiva Net Worth

Abhisit Vejjajiva is one of the richest Economist from Thailand. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Abhisit Vejjajiva 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Abhisit Vejjajiva ( pronunciation (help ·info ) ; Thai: อภิสิทธิ์ เวชชาชีวะ , RTGS: Aphisit Wetchachiwa , [ʔà.pʰí.sìt wêːt.tɕʰāː.tɕʰīː.wáʔ] ; born 3 August 1964) is a British Thai politician who was the prime minister of Thailand from 2008 to 2011. He is a former university lecturer at Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy and Thammasat University, and was the leader of the Democrat Party from 2005 until he resigned following the party’s weak performance in the 2019 election. As leader of the second largest party in the House of Representatives, he was also leader of the opposition – a position he held from December 2008 until his party’s en masse resignation from the House on 8 December 2013. That same month, he was formally charged with murder resulting from a crackdown on demonstrators in 2010 that killed 90 people.

Mark Abhisit Vejjajiva was born in Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom. He studied in England from the age of eleven, where he attended Eton College. Abhisit earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE), first class honours, and a master’s degree in economics from St John’s College, Oxford. While studying in England, he went to Thailand several times, including a gap year trip in 1983 with classmate and future UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the resort city of Chiang Mai and the island of Phuket.

We cannot and do not support any kind of extra-constitutional change, but it is done. The country has to move forward and the best way forward is for the coup leaders to quickly return power to the people and carry out the reforms they promised. They have to prove themselves. I urge them to lift all restrictions as soon as possible. There is no need to write a brand new constitution. They could make changes to the 1997 constitution and if that’s the case, there is no reason to take a year. Six months is a good time.

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In the crisis that followed, some Democrat Party members became leaders of the People’s Alliance for Democracy, which organised a six-month-long demonstration and seized Government House, Don Muang Airport, and Suvarnabhumi Airport. Abhisit voiced displeasure at the sieges, but did not stop his deputies from their leadership of the PAD. The sieges ended after the Constitutional Court banned the People’s Power Party. Army commander and co- leader of the 2006 coup, General Anupong Paochinda, allegedly coerced several PPP MPs from the Friends of Newin Group to defect to the Democrat Party, allowing Abhisit to be elected Prime Minister.

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The Thai Rak Thai party charged the Democrats with bribing other small political parties into boycotting the April 2006 elections. An 11-member fact- finding panel headed by Deputy Attorney-General Chaikasem Nitisiri voted unanimously in June 2006 to recommend dissolving the Democrat Party, as well as Thai Rak Thai and three other parties, based on evidence that the Democrats bribed other opposition parties into boycotting the elections. In February 2007, candidates from the Progressive Democratic Party testified before the Constitution Tribunal that they were duped into registering for candidacy in the April elections. Three witnesses testified that Democrat leaders Thaworn Senniam, Wirat Kalayasiri, and Jua Ratchasi encouraged protesters to disrupt the registration of candidates during the by-elections after the April 2006 election. Prosecutors contended that the party tried to disqualify the election results and force continuous rounds of by-elections. The defence claimed that the witnesses were hired by the Thai Rak Thai party to discredit the Democrats. Ultimately, the Constitutional Court of Thailand acquitted Abhisit and the Democrats of bribery, and instead banned Thaksin’s Thai Rak Thai party for the same charges.