The Thai Local Power Party (TLP; th, พรรคพลังท้องถิ่นไท, ) is a Thai political party that was founded on 30 March 2012 under the name Thong Thin Thai (TTT; ), with

Chatchawal Kong-udom Chatchawal Kong-udom ( th, ชัชวาลล์ คงอุดม, born 12 November 1943), also known as Chat Taopoon (), is a Thai business tycoon and politician. He is known as a '' chao pho'' (godfather) in Bangkok's underground gambling in ...

, or Chat Taopoon, former Bangkok Senator and former executive editor of

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newspaper, as the founder and Seksorn Homrak as the first leader of the party. Later, in an extraordinary general meeting of the party on 24 March 2014, the party changed the party regulations, including changing the party's name to "Thai Local Power". On Friday 2 November 2018, the party held an extraordinary meeting of the party at Pathumthani Place Hotel to select a new party executive committee, where Chatchawal was elected to the position of party leader, Chuenchob Kong-udom, Chatchawan's son, was elected party spokesman, and Rattaphoom "Film" Thokhongsub, a famous singer-actor, was elected deputy party spokesman. The committee also elected Kriangkrai Phoom-laochaeng as deputy leader of the party and Thirasak Panichwit as party secretary. In the 2019 general election, the Thai Local Power Party won 3 members of the

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and joined the government coalition led by Phalang Pracharath. Subsequently, on 12 July 2019, Rattaphoom resigned from the position of deputy party spokesperson and left the Thai Local Power Party due to disagreements with its ideology. He later joined Pheu Thai, an opposition party.

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