Thaksin Shinawatra

Thaksin Shinawatra, one of the most popular Prime Minister of Thailand. He is the 32nd Prime Minister. He was born on 26 July 1949 at Sankamphang, Chiangmai, Northern of Thailand.
He started his PM career on 9 February 2001 and he walked down from his PM position on 19 September 2006 because of coup d'état in Thailand.

The Thaksin Shinawatra's Story
Thai businessman and politician, is the deposed Prime Minister of Thailand and the former leader of the populist Thai Rak Thai party. He is married to Potjaman Shinawatra, and has one son, Panthongtae and two daughters.
Thaksin started his career in the Thai Police, and later became a successful entrepreneur, establishing Shin Corporation and Advanced Info Service, the largest mobile phone operator in Thailand. He became one of the richest people in Thailand. Thaksin entered politics by joining the Phalang Dharma Party in 1994, and later founded the Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party in 1998. After a landslide election victory in 2001, he became Prime Minister of Thailand.
Thaksin's distinctive economic, public health, education, energy, drug, politics, and international relations policies made him the first elected Prime Minister in Thai history to complete his term in office, and helped him win a landslide re-election in 2005. Thaksin's policies were particularly effective at alleviating rural poverty (poverty fell by half in 5 years) and at increasing access to affordable healthcare. His main support base has been the rural poor. Under his government, Thailand's standing on major indices of corruption improved substantially.
However, his government has been frequently challenged with allegations of corruption, dictatorship, demagogy, treason, conflicts of interest, human rights offences, acting undiplomatically, the use of legal loopholes and hostility towards a free press. A controversial leader, he has also been the target of allegations of lèse-majesté, selling assets to international investors, religious desecration, and siding with the forces of darkness. He has been subject to several assassination attempts.
On 19 September 2006, a military junta overthrew his government in a bloodless coup while he was in New York City. The junta warned him several times against returning to Thailand. His diplomatic passport was revoked after the junta accused him of engaging in political activities while in exile. Thai embassies were ordered not to facilitate his travels, and all mention of him on Thai television has been censored. (From Wikipedia)

Thaksin's Photoes

We can say 'Many people love him'. In the picture, there are a lot of students want to give him the rose.

At the same time, some people did not like him. In the picture at right side, there are a lot of people walked in the center of Bangkok to protest Thaksin.

In another side, there are around 100,000 people went to Sanam-Luang (A biggest public place near Grand Palace) to support Thaksin.

Mixed Photoes