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Prayut Chanocha
Sign in to saveAlso known as Prayuth Chan-ocha, Too, Prayut Jan-o-cha, Gen. Prayuth Chanocha, General Prayut Chan-o-cha
Prime Minister of Thailand from 2014 to 2023
Prayut Chan-o-cha was the Prime Minister of Thailand for nine years, from 2014 to 2023. He came to power following a military coup and led the country through a period that included the drafting of a new constitution and eventual return to electoral politics.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Thailand
- Place of birth
- Mueang Nakhon Ratchasima
- Occupation
- dictator
- Political party
- Palang Pracharath Party
- Languages spoken
- Thai
- Native language
- Thai
- Participant in
- APEC Thailand 2022
- Field of work
- infantry
- Hair colour
- black hair
- Genre
- patriotic song
- Military branch
- Royal Thai Army
- Military rank
- general
- Official website
- www.prayutchan-o-cha.com
- Image
- Fumio Kishida and Prayut Chan-o-cha at the Prime Minister's Office 2022 (1) (altered).jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Work location
- Chon Buri
- Residence
- Phitsanulok Mansion
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- Commons category
- Prayut Chan-o-cha
- name in native language
- ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา
- social media followers
- 92074
- Commons Creator page
- Prayut Chan-o-cha
- affiliation string
- Office of the Prime Minister of Thailand
- P10632
- Prayut Chanocha
- topic's main category
- Category:Prayut Chan-o-cha
- date of birth
- 1954-03-21
- allegiance
- Thailand
- nickname
- ตู่
- writing language
- Thai
- honorific prefix
- Excellency
- candidacy in election
- 2023 Thai general election
- handedness
- right-handedness
- member of
- National Council for Peace and Order
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Encyclopedic overview
Prayut Chan-o-cha (Thai: ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา, pronounced [prā.jút tɕān.ʔōː.tɕʰāː] ; born 21 March 1954) is a Thai former politician and military officer who became the 29th prime minister of Thailand after seizing power in the 2014 coup d'état and served until 2023. He was concurrently the minister of defence in his own government from 2019 to 2023. Prayut served as commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Army from 2010 to 2014 and led the coup d'état which installed the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), the military junta which governed Thailand between 22 May 2014 and 10 July 2019.
After his appointment as army chief in 2010, Prayut was characterised as a royalist and an opponent of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Considered a hardliner within the military, he was one of the leading proponents of military crackdowns on the Red Shirt demonstrations of April 2009 and April–May 2010. He later sought to moderate his profile, talking to relatives of protesters who were killed in the bloody conflict and cooperating with the government of Yingluck Shinawatra, who won parliamentary elections in July 2011.
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