However, in May 2014, Prayut launched a military coup against the government and assumed control of the country as dictator and leader of the National Council for Peace and Order, a military junta. He later sought to moderate his profile, talking to relatives of protesters who were killed in the bloody conflict, and co-operating with the government of Yingluck Shinawatra who won parliamentary elections in July 2011.ĭuring the political crisis that began in November 2013 and involved protests against the caretaker government of Yingluck, Prayut claimed that the army was neutral and would not launch a coup. Considered a hardliner within the military, he was one of the leading proponents of military crackdowns on the Red Shirt demonstrations of April 2009 and April–May 2010. Prayut served as chief of the Thai army from 2010 to 2014 and lead the 2014 Thai coup d'état which installed the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), the military junta which governed Thailand between and 10 July 2019.Īfter his appointment as army chief in 2010, Prayut was characterised as a royalist and an opponent of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
He has also served as Minister of Defence since 2019.
Prayut Chan-o-cha (sometimes spelled Prayuth Chan-ocha Thai: ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา, pronounced born 21 March 1954) is a Thai politician and a retired Royal Thai Army officer, who seized power as Prime Minister of Thailand in 2014.
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