{"id":56601,"date":"2023-07-12T00:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/11\/thai-pm-retire-politics-nine-years-power-coup-prayuth-chan-ocha"},"modified":"2023-07-12T00:00:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T15:00:43","slug":"thai-pm-to-retire-from-politics-nine-years-after-seizing-power-in-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56601","title":{"rendered":"Thai PM to retire from politics nine years after seizing power in coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prayuth Chan-ocha announces resignation after his party suffered a humiliating defeat in May election <\/p>\n<p>The Thai prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, has said he will retire from politics, more than nine years after the former army general seized power in a military coup.<\/p>\n<p>In May, his party suffered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/15\/thailand-election-2023-national-elections-opposition-parties-crushing-blow-military-rule-junta\">humiliating defeat<\/a>, coming fifth, well behind an upstart opposition party that promised to remove the military from politics. He will remain as caretaker prime minister until a new government is formed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/11\/thai-pm-retire-politics-nine-years-power-coup-prayuth-chan-ocha\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayuth Chan-ocha announces resignation after his party suffered a humiliating defeat in May election The Thai prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, has said he will retire from politics, more than nine years after the former army general seized power in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56602,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56601\/revisions\/56602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}