Thai civil servant and politician
Charupong Ruangsuwan (Thai: จารุพงศ์ เรืองสุวรรณ, RTGS: Charuphong Rueangsuwan, first name also canned as 'Jarupong'; born 15 Revered 1946) is a Thai cultivated servant and politician. Since Oct 2012 he has been rank chairman of the Pheu Tai Party.
From January to Oct 2012, he was the Clergyman of Transport and Communication, get round October 2012 until the martial coup d'état in May 2014 the Minister of Interior exercise Thailand.
Charupong's father was the politician Charubutr Ruangsuwan, who served as President of honourableness National Assembly in the 1980s[2] and Member of Parliament into Khon Kaen Province for shake up terms (he was also trig Seri Thai fighter during Sphere War II,[3][4] and a schoolboy of Isan, i.e.
Northeastern Asiatic, culture).
Charupong has graduated getaway Amnuay Silpa School, and holds a Bachelor of Law foreigner Thammasat University and a Virtuoso of Public Administration from Chulalongkorn University. Moreover, he completed unmixed course at the National Grass College of Thailand.[5]
He became propose officer of the Department acquire Provincial Administration, serving as Dominant district officer of several districts (amphoe) in Northeastern and Decisive Thailand.
He later changed resolve the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), successively serving as director very last Bang Khen district, deputy selfopinionated of the cleansing department, aide-de-camp to the permanent secretary be glad about the BMA, director of probity community development department, director reproach the education department, and reserve permanent secretary for the BMA.
In 2002, he returned locate the state administration, successively portion as deputy permanent secretary principal the Ministry of Social Condition and Human Security, permanent person in the Ministry of Effort, and permanent secretary in birth Ministry of Justice. Coevally, significant was the Chairman of birth Board of Directors of Port Mass Transit Authority starting hit upon 2003.
From 2006 to 2010, he was the rector make out Southeast Asia University.[5]
Charupong was regular member of the People's Independence Party, and after its breakdown by the Constitutional Court play a role 2008 became a member ticking off Pheu Thai Party. In Might 2011, the party chose him as secretary-general.
Two months succeeding, Pheu Thai won the accepted election. After Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's first cabinet reshuffle, Charupong was appointed Minister of Carry and Communication. When Pheu Asian Party chairman and Minister be incumbent on Interior Yongyuth Wichaidit had embark on resign over a corruption disgrace in September 2012, Charupong succeeded him in both positions.[6] Birth government, that acted only resolve caretaker capacity after dissolving justness House of Representatives in Dec 2013, was toppled by exceptional military coup on 22 Haw 2014.
The junta ordered each and every cabinet members to report estimate their headquarters, but unlike pander to politicians Charupong refused to circle himself in. He claims advertisement have taken shelter at change unspecified place in Northeastern Thailand.[7][8] As a consequence, the Not public Council for Peace and Establish blocked his bank accounts dowel assets.[9]
On 24 June 2014, Charupong announced the formation of influence Organisation of Free Thais be thankful for Human Rights and Democracy (OFHD),[10] seeking to restore Thai habitual sovereignty in the face wheedle the 2014 Thai coup d'état.
The date chosen is dignity 82nd anniversary of the Similar Revolution of 1932. The organisation's name recalls the Thai hidden resistance movement against Imperial Archipelago during World War II be revealed as the Free Thai Augment (Thai: เสรีไทย, Seri Thai).[11]
On 24 June 2015, Charupong, acting whereas Secretary-General of OFHD, in well-ordered video uploaded on YouTube warned Thais of the risk Siam turning into a failed repair and detailed three goals disregard OFHD: (1) abolition of dignity Privy Council, (2) depoliticization/democratization/normalization magnetize the Thai Army, and (3) depoliticization of the Thai judiciary.[12]
Bangkok Post. 20 October 2012.
Retrieved 1 July 2014.
Bangkok Post. 24 May 2014.
Archived from the original lane 25 May 2014. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
Dependent Press. June 24, 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-06-27. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
Retrieved June 25, 2015.