Abhisit Vejjajiva

PPP was subsequently banned, giving birth to Pheu Thai, The Newin faction's defection to back Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as prime minister infuriated Pheu Thai de facto leader Thaksin, a man who demands loyalty above all else. Newin's faction ...  

Abhisit campaigns for Democrat candidate to Chiang Mai. Opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva was in Chiang Mai's constituency 3 on Thursday to help campaign for Democrat candidate Kullayakorn...  

Opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday questioned the merit of a reconciliation law being pushed by Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yoobumrung for amnesty for fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. Abhisit said if the proposed law was really ...  

He was responding to opposition leader and Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva during a debate on the government's 2.4 trillion baht budget bill for 2013. The 2013 fiscal budget includes a deficit of 300 billion baht, 100 billion less than the current budget.  

Red shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan was attacking then prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and his deputy Suthep Thaugsuban, not the monarchy, in his speech made at the Democracy Monument on April 10, 2010, DSI chief Tarit Pengdit said on Monday. The Department ...  

The previous government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva established the Truth for Reconciliation Commission of Thailand to investigate and report on the 2010 violence. The Abhisit government charged UDD leaders and hundreds of UDD protesters ...  

The violent dispersal of the Red Shirt protest contributed to the unpopularity of the government in 2010 which was at that time headed by Abhisit Vejjajiva. Abhisit’s party lost in the elections last year. Thailand’s incumbent Prime Minister ...  

MCOT reports today: Some 200,000 red shirt supporters are expected to join activities held by the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) — the red shirt movement — to mark the second anniversary Saturday of the 2010 protest against the then Abhisit Vejjajiva administration, red shirt co-leader Jatuporn Prompan said on Thursday. Mr Jatuporn, [...]  

The Democrat Party has asked the Office of the Ombudsman to investigate Pheu Thai MP Pracha Prasopdee over "inaccurate" allegations against Democrat leader Abhisit Vejjajiva regarding absentee voting. "The evidence Pracha has presented is inaccurate," said ...  

The spokesman urged Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva to end attempts by his party members to protect the 2007 Constitution. Most Thais wanted the Constitution, promulgated after the 2006 coup, to be amended, Prompong said. He believed the opposition ...  

Mr Yuthapong said Praphanphong Vejjajiva, an uncle of Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva, is the KT chairman. He said if the BMA waited until BTS's original concession ended in 2029 and it took ownership of the Green Line system then, it would have ...  

She was photographed on the parliament's TV system calmly sipping a drink while watching opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva speak. What had been billed as a budget debate was little more than a self-assured victory lap by Ms Yingluck and her ministers ...  

However, some lawmakers said they would prefer it if the decision was left up to Parliament. Opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva proposed that the draft first be considered by the Constitution Court, then have the Parliament see if it needs any ...  

She won her 2011 campaign by a landslide and ended the premiership of Abhisit Vejjajiva, a staunch Thaksin opponent who ordered the crackdown on anti-government protesters. Yingluck has continued in the spirit of her brother’s populist policies ...  

Amphon Tangnoppakul, also known as ‘Akong’ or ‘Uncle SMS’ was last November convicted of sending four text messages deemed offensive to the monarchy to the secretary of the then-prime minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva. Amphon’s death marks the first ...