Chaturon Chaisang

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chaturon Chaisang
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 1, 1956(1956-01-01)
Age	68
Birthplace	Chachoengsao
Country	Thailand
Horoscope	Capricorn

Chaturon Chaisang Biography

Chaturon Chaisang is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 1, 1956 in Chachoengsao, Thailand. Chaturon Chaisang (also known as Chaisaeng (Thai Cchaaturnt Chaayaesng and pronounced [tca:.tu.ron tcha:j.se:NG] ) born on January 1st 1956) is a Thai politician. He was a cabinet member for a number of terms, serving as the Minister of Justice and the Deputy Prime Minister, as well as the Minister for Education in the cabinet that included Thaksin as well as Yingluck Shinawatra.

Following returning to Thailand after 1986, the Thai entered mainstream politics and was elected to represent his province in the Parliament for several years. He frequently switched parties, but for the majority of the 1990s , he was in the New Aspiration Party, in which he was Secretary General from 1997 to the time of his resignation in 2000. He later was a part of his former party, the Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT) of Thaksin Shinawatra and became a member of Thaksin’s cabinet in various positions, including Secretary to the Cabinet of the Prime Minister (2001-02) as well as Minister for Justice (2002) and the Deputy Premier (2002-05) and the Minister for Education (2005-06).

After the coup, with Thaksin and key party executives either abroad or arrested, Chaturon became the interim party leader after Sudarat Keyuraphan declined to take the post. He strongly condemned the coup, saying it destroyed Thai democracy by violating the liberal 1997 constitution. When the new rulers called political parties to nominate a representative to the National Legislative Assembly, Chaturon refused to do so. The TRT was dissolved by a verdict of the junta-appointed “Constitutional Tribunal” in May 2007. Like other (former) party representatives, the court barred Chaturon from holding political office for five years.

He intended to found a new party of his own, but given the difficulties under Thai party law, he instead joined the relatively new Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT) of telecommunications tycoon Thaksin Shinawatra shortly ahead of its landslide success in the 2001 general election. He immediately became a deputy leader of the party. In Thaksin’s cabinets he successively served in different positions. First he was Minister to the Office of the Prime Minister from 2001 to 2002. In this position he was responsible for political decentralisation, bureaucratic reform and energy policy. By proposing a decentralisation of revenue collection on a local level and direct election of the chiefs of local administration, he took on conservative bureaucrats in the Ministry of Interior, but also sceptic members of TRT, and even the Prime Minister, who favoured a more centralist leadership. As the cabinet’s representative in the Energy Policy Committee, he interfered with the state-owned Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, when he proposed a more user-friendly clearing of power bills, and endorsed social activists’ and groups’ demands to cancel several projected power plants and dams.

Chaturon was a member of the Thai Parliament in Chachoengsao in 1986, until the Thai coup d’etat in 2006. His admission into Thai politics was arranged and backed by the father of his son. He hid his history as an activist student of the left, and instead portrayed himself as an educated, US-educated new- generation politician , and father of an established politician. At first, he was a member of an organization called the Democrat Party, he served as the assistant secretary of his deputy finance minister from 1986 until 1989. Then, he resigned towards the minor People’s Party (Phak Prachachon) in order to join with the Thai Nation Party (Chart Thai) just a few months later, after being invited by Kraisak Choonhavan, a fellow ex-leftist student activist and the son of the Premier Chatichai Choonhavan. Under the Chatichai administration, Chaturon was made secretary to the Minister of Commerce.

Chaturon Chaisang Net Worth

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

The 1970s were a time when Chaturon played a role as one of leading figures of the pro-democracy, leftist students’ movement which led the popular uprising of October 1973 against the military dictatorship. Following the massacre at Thammasat massacre at the University and the return to the authoritarian regime, he was a part of an illegal Communist Party of Thailand. Later, he fled to United States, where he pursued his academic studies and earned a master’s degree in economics.

In the course of his studies in the Department of Medicine, Chiang Mai University and Chiang Mai University, he was involved in the Chiang Mai University students’ movement that began the popular uprising of October 1973 against the military regime that was led by Thanom Kittikachorn. He was the leader in the Pracha Tham (“Dharma Party”) which was a left-wing student organization that was based at Chiang Mai University. The party was successful in the university elections and he was elected the president of Chiang Mai University’s student body. Following the Thammasat University massacre on 6 October 1976 and the subsequent annexation of an unlawful Communist Party of Thailand and kept its camps hidden within the forest. In the time of his arrest, he was the editor of the communist-affiliated student newspaper Athipat (“Sovereign”).

In 1992 Chaturon again switched parties and joined the New Aspiration Party (NAP) of General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh. Chaturon became a “poster child” and spokesman of this party. After the bloody events of “Black May” 1992, Chaturon advocated political reform. He served as the NAP’s representative on the special committee for constitutional reform. During all this time he still maintained contact with his ex-comrades from the time of CPT’s armed struggle in Nan Province in the 1970s. In 1995 he became Chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Science and Technology, in 1996 a spokesman of the Constitution Drafting Committee. During Chavalit’s premiership from 1996 to 1997, he served as deputy minister of finance. In 1997 he became secretary-general of the NAP. In 1998, he was a member of the committee coordinating the ceremony to remember the 25th anniversary of the 1973 popular uprising. After conflicts with old-style politicians within the NAP, he resigned from the declining party in 2000.

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Who is Chaturon Chaisang Dating?

According to our records, Chaturon Chaisang married to Jiraporn Piamkamol. As of December 1, 2023, Chaturon Chaisang’s is not dating anyone.

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After his political ban expired, he was re-appointed Minister of Education during a reshuffle in Yingluck Shinawatra’s cabinet in June 2013. He was once again removed from power by the military coup d’état of 22 May 2014. Unlike other politicians, he defied the “National Council for Peace and Order’s” order to report to the military leadership. He was arrested after giving interviews at Bangkok’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club on 27 May.

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Chaturon Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Thailand. Chaturon Chaisang celebrates birthday on January 1 of every year.