{"id":73972,"date":"2025-09-06T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/06\/pro-cannabis-karaoke-meet-thailand-next-prime-minister-anutin-charnvirakul"},"modified":"2025-09-06T09:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:00:36","slug":"pro-cannabis-and-a-karaoke-crooner-meet-thailands-next-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73972","title":{"rendered":"Pro-cannabis and a karaoke crooner: meet Thailand\u2019s next prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anutin Charnvirakul\u2019s hobbies, which include playing saxophone, flying planes and cooking, show a relaxed and casual yet shrewd politician<\/p>\n<p>The man who will become Thailand\u2019s next prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/05\/tycoon-anutin-charnvirakul-thai-pm-cannabis-campaign\">after securing the backing of the majority of lawmakers in parliament on Friday<\/a> is a staunch royalist and conservative with an eclectic mix of passions and hobbies.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, Anutin Charnvirakul, 58, is an advocate for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/05\/tycoon-anutin-charnvirakul-thai-pm-cannabis-campaign\">cannabis legalisation<\/a>, a pilot who has used his private jets to deliver organs to transplant patients, a saxophonist and street food enthusiast.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/06\/pro-cannabis-karaoke-meet-thailand-next-prime-minister-anutin-charnvirakul\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anutin Charnvirakul\u2019s hobbies, which include playing saxophone, flying planes and cooking, show a relaxed and casual yet shrewd politicianThe man who will become Thailand\u2019s next prime minister after securing the backing of the majority of lawmakers 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":[41,93,2873,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73972","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\/73972","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=73972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73973,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73972\/revisions\/73973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}