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Chuan Leekpai

prime minister of Thailand
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July 28, 1938, Muang district, Trang province, Thailand (age 86)

Chuan Leekpai (born July 28, 1938, Muang district, Trang province, Thailand) is a Thai lawyer and politician who served as prime minister of Thailand (1992–95, 1997–2001).

Chuan, the son of a schoolteacher, became a lawyer but later turned his attention to politics. He joined the Democrat Party, and in 1969 he was first elected a member of parliament. He served in various capacities in the government while rising within his party, becoming its leader in 1991. The following year he was made prime minister after his predecessor resigned in the wake of street violence brought on by Thailand’s worsening economic crisis. Chuan lost elections in 1995 largely because his government was seen as plodding and slow, but he was returned to power in 1997; he stepped down in 2001 after his party lost in national parliamentary elections. He was Thailand’s first prime minister to come to power without either aristocratic or military backing. In 2003 Chuan resigned as leader of the Democrat Party.

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