{"id":40332,"date":"2021-04-06T15:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T19:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/?page_id=40332"},"modified":"2021-04-06T16:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:21:16","slug":"abhisit-vejjajiva-mp-and-former-prime-minister-of-thailand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/abhisit-vejjajiva-mp-and-former-prime-minister-of-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Abhisit Vejjajiva, MP and Former Prime Minister of Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-gb40332-69ea412d23592\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-gb40332-69ea412d23592-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb40332-69ea412d23592-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb40332-69ea412d23592-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0152a3;\"><strong>Abhisit Vejjajiva, MP and<br \/>\nFormer Prime Minister of Thailand<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39952\" src=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Abhisit-Vejajiva-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Abhisit-Vejajiva-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Abhisit-Vejajiva-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Abhisit Vejjajiva was Thailand\u2019s 27th Prime Minister holding the office from 2008-2011. \u00a0With a platform revolving around \u201cPutting People First\u201d and anti-corruption, he ascended to the post at the age of 44. Among the achievements of his government are free healthcare, higher minimum wage and free education, including textbooks and milk for nursery-school children. Despite the challenges of economic turmoil during his time in office, the Abhisit Government was credited with effective economic policies and bringing Thailand to a stable and sound financial standing through stimulus packages and investing not just in jobs, but also in increasing the competitiveness of the economy. He remains active in Thai government as a Member of Parliament. Before joining politics, he had an academic career teaching at Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy.<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abhisit Vejjajiva, MP and Former Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva was Thailand\u2019s 27th Prime Minister holding the office from 2008-2011. \u00a0With a platform revolving around \u201cPutting People First\u201d and anti-corruption, he ascended to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40332","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40370,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40332\/revisions\/40370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.org\/globalsummit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}