New Cabinet of the Yingluck Shinawatra Administration

(29/10/2012)

By a royal command countersigned by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on 27 October 2012, 20 Cabinet members were discharged and 23 members were appointed. The latest Cabinet reshuffle was the third of the present administration. Out of the 23 portfolios, several members of the second Yingluck Cabinet were transferred to new positions, while several new faces were brought into the Cabinet. So there are both new and old faces in the third Cabinet of the Yingluck administration. According to the royal command, Mr. Surapong Tovichakchaikul was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister while holding his current Foreign Minister post, Mr. Plodprasop Suraswadi as Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Phongthep Thepkanjana as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Mr. Varathep Ratanakorn as Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office, Miss Sansanee Nakpong as Minister to the Prime Minister’s Office, Mr. Yukol Limlamthong as Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Mr. Siriwat Kajornprasart as Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Mr. Yutthapong Charassathien as Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Mr. Chadchart Sittipunt as Minister of Transport, General Prin Suwanatat as Deputy Minister of Transport, Mr. Prasert Chanruangthong as Deputy Minister of Transport, Mr. Pongsak Raktapongpaisarn as Minister of Energy, Mr. Nattawut Saikuar as Deputy Commerce Minister, Mr. Charupong Ruangsuwan as Minister of Interior, Police Lieutenant General Chatt Kuldilok as Deputy Minister of Interior, Mr. Pracha Prasopdee as Deputy Minister of Interior, Mr. Sontaya Kunplome as Minister of Culture, Mr. Woravat Auapinyakul, as Minister of Science and Technology, Mr. Sermsak Pongpanit as Deputy Education Minister, Mr. Pradit Sintavanarong as Minister of Public Health, Mr. Chonlanan Srikaew as Deputy Minister of Public Health, Mr. Prasert Boonchaisuk as Ministry of Industry, and Mr. Tarnis Thienthong as Deputy Minister of Industry. Prime Minister Yingluck said that two ministers had earlier resigned from their positions, so Cabinet changes were made for appropriateness and the benefit of national administration. The two ministers were former Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives Theera Wongsamut and former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Yongyoot Wichaidit.