Abhisit Vejjajiva ( Thai : อภิสิทธิ์ เวช ชา ชีวะ, Royal transliteration : Aphisit Wetchachiwa, Chinese name: Yuan Mark ; August 3, 1964 - ) Thai politician , former Prime Minister of Thailand , the current chairman of the Democratic Party , leader of the Opposition .

Life

 

Abhisit was surnamed Yuan Chinese Thais , ancestors emigrated from Vietnam to Thailand Hakka . Abhisit was born in 1964 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England ; parents are a professor of medicine , his father is also a politician . Abhisit had attended Eton College and completed philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) degree program at Oxford University , after graduating from short Zhu taught at the Royal Military College in Lhasa power , and later returned to Oxford to study economics master's program . Thereafter any economics lecturer at Thammasat University in Bangkok ; 1990 LLB at Ramkhamhaeng University .

Political career

 

Abhisit 1992 to Democrat constituency identity was elected to Congress in Bangkok , was the youngest congressman .

Chairman of the Democratic Party in 2005 when either pull the probe if he defeated · Class Thaksin Shinawatra 's Thai Rak Thai Party leadership election after the resignation of Abhisit was elected as the new party chairman .

December 15, 2008 , Abhisit 's prime minister in parliament won the election to succeed in the December 2 was the Thai Constitutional Court ruled that five years must not be in politics Somchai Wang Peshawar as prime minister , became the first 27 in Thailand ( 35th ) prime minister. January 11, 2009 , the Democratic Party Abhisit belongs in the Congress election victory, so that the advantages of Abhisit 's ruling continuity ; But a year later, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra 's supporters asked Congress to advance unsuccessful and build a comprehensive election protests in Bangkok, Thailand , and because those in power to use force and increased political conflict .

July 3, 2011 , for the first time in four years , Thailand 's parliamentary elections , the election results by the support for Thaksin 's Thai party get more than half the seats in the 265 seat parliament , the Thai Party leader is also the party 's chief candidate, former Prime Minister Thaksin letter Shinawatra 's sister Yingluck Shinawatra to become the new prime minister任泰国, while the ruling Democratic Party obtained only 159 seats , becoming the second largest party . Thaksin party support for the fifth time to win the election . Thai Prime Minister and party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva conceded defeat and resigned from the post of party leader and said Democrats would re- election within 90 days of the new leader of the Democratic Party leader after his reappointment , as the leader of the opposition Congress .

Nationality dispute

 

Abhisit Congress in 2011 in calm himself as dual citizenship , and the other has British nationality , sparking nationwide uproar. Abhisit said : "My mind is clear, though I was born in England, but I think he is Thai, I was studying in the UK, but I want to go back to work and live in Thailand , I just want to serve the national interest , from no other idea . "