Chalerm Yubamrung
Chalerm Yubamrung ( Thai: เฉลิม อยู่ บำรุง, RTGS: Chaloem Yubamrung; born June 10, 1947 in Bangkok ) is a Thai politician of the Pheu Thai Party. From 2009 to 2011 he was the leader of the Pheu Thai and parliamentary opposition leader. From 2011 to 2013 he was Deputy Prime Minister, since he is working Yingluck Shinawatra minister.
Chalerm Yubamrung pursued a career in law enforcement until he retired with the rank of captain, to go into the private sector. He studied part-time law degree from Ramkhamhaeng University and also received his doctorate through this.
His political career began as a deputy for the Democratic Party. In 1986, he resigned from it in order to establish the Muanchon Party ( " mass party "). For them, he was elected in his home constituency in the west of Bangkok repeatedly to parliament. His party was in 1988 part of the coalition government of Chatichai Choonhavan and Chalerm was Minister in the Prime Minister's Office. In this position, he had, among other things, the oversight of the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand, which regulated the broadcasting licenses for private television programs and forgave. The government was overthrown in 1991 by a military coup, allegedly because several ministers, including Chalerm, who enriched and were " unusually rich " has become. He left the country temporarily. In the reign of Banharn Silpa - archa, he was from 1995 to 1996 again Cabinet Member, this time as Minister of Justice. In 1997, he joined the party on New Hope. In 2004, he ran as now non-party for the office of Governor of Bangkok, but only came in fourth place.
In 2007 he became a member of the Party of People's Power and Minister of the Interior in the government of Samak Sundaravej, then briefly Health Minister in the Cabinet Somchai Wongsawat. In December 2008, the party of the people's power was banned by the Constitutional Court. But It was based almost immediately under the name of Pheu Thai party again. Chalerm was group president and thus leader of the parliamentary opposition to the government of Abhisit Vejjajiva. After the election victory of his party in 2011, the new Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has made him one of her four deputies. In a cabinet reshuffle in July 2013 he lost the position of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour was instead. He was reportedly unhappy with this change of position, he felt as a demotion.
Chalerm is married and has three sons. One of them, Duangchalerm, was charged with murder in 2001, but was not convicted because of conflicting witness statements.