{"id":73960,"date":"2025-09-05T19:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/05\/tycoon-anutin-charnvirakul-thai-pm-cannabis-campaign"},"modified":"2025-09-05T22:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T13:37:44","slug":"tycoon-who-led-campaign-to-decriminalise-cannabis-to-be-thai-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73960","title":{"rendered":"Tycoon who led push to decriminalise cannabis becomes Thai PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anutin Charnvirakul voted in by parliament after promising election in four months, as Thaksin Shinawatra jets out<\/p>\n<p>Anutin Charnvirakul, a staunch royalist, has been appointed by lawmakers as Thailand\u2019s next prime minister after days of heated negotiations and political drama.<\/p>\n<p>The 58-year-old tycoon turned politician is considered a conservative, though he made a name for himself for leading a campaign to decriminalise cannabis. He was voted in after a chaotic scramble by parties to gain enough support to replace the ousted PM, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was removed from office by a court ruling.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/05\/tycoon-anutin-charnvirakul-thai-pm-cannabis-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anutin Charnvirakul voted in by parliament after promising election in four months, as Thaksin Shinawatra jets outAnutin Charnvirakul, a staunch royalist, has been appointed by lawmakers as Thailand\u2019s next prime minister after days of heated negotiatio&#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":[41,93,2873,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-thaksin-shinawatra","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\/73960","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=73960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73968,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73960\/revisions\/73968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}