Yuranunt Pamornmontri ( th, ยุรนันท์ ภมรมนตรี; , nicknamed ''Sam;'' born 2 January 1962) is a Thai actor and politician. He was born in Bangkok and started his career as an actor, later becoming a member of the House of Representatives from 2005 to 2006, during Thaksin Shinawatra's term as Prime Minister. He was elected as party-list MP again in the 2011 general election, substituting resigned Police Lieutenant General Chatt Kuldilok. His father is Lieutenant general Prayoon Pamornmontri (พลโทประยูร ภมรมนตรี), one of the members of Khana Ratsadon, which successfully staged the Siamese revolution of 1932.

Political career

He entered politics in 2004 and moved to

Thai Rak Thai party The Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT; th, พรรคไทยรักไทย, , ; "Thais Love Thais Party") was a Thai political party founded in 1998. From 2001 to 2006, it was the ruling party under its founder, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawat ...

in the same year. After a

landslide victory A landslide victory is an election result in which the victorious candidate or party wins by an overwhelming margin. The term became popular in the 1800s to describe a victory in which the opposition is "buried", similar to the way in which a geol ...

in 2005 general election, he became Member of Parliament and the deputy Government Spokesman but on 19 September 2006 a military junta overthrew Thaksin's government in a bloodless coup while he was abroad. The CNS-appointed constitutional tribunal dissolved the Thai Rak Thai party for

electoral fraud Electoral fraud, sometimes referred to as election manipulation, voter fraud or vote rigging, involves illegal interference with the process of an election, either by increasing the vote share of a favored candidate, depressing the vote share of ...

, banning TRT's executives from politics for five years. Yuranan moved to People's Power Party (PPP) and lost the 2007 general election, but leader of PPP Samak Sundaravej, became the Prime Minister. Then he became the adviser of Minister of Education Somchai Wongsawat who was the next Prime Minister. In January 2009, he moved to Pheu Thai Party and was defeated in the 15th Bangkok gubernatorial election by

Sukhumbhand Paribatra Mom Rajawongse Sukhumbhand Paribatra ( th, ม.ร.ว.สุขุมพันธุ์ บริพัตร; , ; born 22 September 1953) is a Thai politician belonging to the Democrat Party. From 2009 to 2016 he was the Governor of Bangkok. ...

Acting career

Films and television

TV dramas

TV series

TV sitcom

Host

* ''Jet See Concert'' * ''Tiang Wan Kan Ang'' * ''Loon Kam Roke'' * ''Ha Hai''

Discography

Songs

Theater organizer

All television drama work as a theatrical producer YUTTAKARN NETWORK COMPANY LIMITED * 2001 ไฟน้ำค้าง * 2002 คนเริงเมือง * 2002 ต้นรักดอกงิ้ว * 2002 สะใภ้ไฮโซ

References

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Yuranunt Pamornmontri Yuranunt Pamornmontri ( th, ยุรนันท์ ภมรมนตรี; , nicknamed ''Sam;'' born 2 January 1962) is a Thai actor and politician. He was born in Bangkok and started his career as an actor, later becoming a member of the H ...

Thai actor-politicians