Chalerm Yubamrung was a Member of Parliament representing the Pheu Thai Party, and was one of the Deputy Prime Ministers of Yingluck Shinawatra from 2011 to 2013.
14 Facts About Chalerm Yubamrung
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Chalerm Yubamrung is married to Lamnao Yubamrung, an auxiliary judge of Thailand's juvenile court.
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Chalerm Yubamrung was released from jail on bail terms in 2003, and finally acquitted as the court considered the evidence insufficient and the witnesses accounts contradictory.
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Chalerm Yubamrung reached the rank of police captain, before he resigned his commission to go into private business.
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Chalerm Yubamrung later received a doctor's degree in law from the open-admissions Ramkhamhaeng University.
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Chalerm Yubamrung first entered politics as an MP with the Democrat Party.
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Chalerm Yubamrung won several consecutive MP election bids, with the exception of the first election of 1992.
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Chalerm Yubamrung served as Minister for Office of the Prime Minister under Chatichai Choonhavan, overseeing the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand.
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Chalerm Yubamrung was accused of press interference and had ongoing conflicts with the military, to the point that he was cited by the coup-makers as one of the reasons for the 1991 military coup d'etat.
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Chalerm Yubamrung fled Thailand to live in Sweden and Denmark until the political situation cooled down.
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Chalerm Yubamrung was appointed justice minister in this cabinet, serving from 13 July 1995 to 24 November 1996.
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In 1997, Chalerm Yubamrung dissolved the Mass Party to combine with the New Aspiration Party of Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh.
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When in 2002, the NAP merged into the Thai Rak Thai Party of the new prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Chalerm Yubamrung did not follow this path, but revived his Mass Party.
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Chalerm Yubamrung served in the cabinet of the short-lived Somchai Wongsawat government as Minister of Public Health.