Native Name Lang: | th |
Honorific-Suffix: | MPCh MWM MP |
Office: | Deputy Minister of the Interior |
Term Start: | 28 October 2012 |
Term End: | 22 May 2014 |
Primeminister: | Yingluck Shinawatra |
Successor: | Sutee Makboon |
Office2: | Member of the Thai House of Representatives |
Constituency2: | Samut Prakan 7th district |
Term Start2: | 3 July 2011 |
Term End2: | 7 May 2014 |
Pracha Prasobdee | |
Native Name: | ประชา ประสพดี |
Birth Date: | 31 October 1960 |
Birth Place: | Bangkok, Thailand |
Party: | Pheu Thai Party |
Spouse: | Nuntawan Prasopdee |
Pracha Prasobdee (th|ประชา ประสพดี) is a Thai politician. As of 2012, he was a Deputy Minister of the Interior[1] and a member of the House of Representatives of the Pheu Thai Party.
Pracha was born on 31 October 1960, the son of Pranom and Somsamai Prasobdee, with 3 siblings. He obtained a bachelor's degree in law from Siam University, and a master's degree in public law from Dhurakij Pundit University and education administration from Chulalongkorn University. He graduated with a doctoral degree in public administration from Ubon Ratchathani University.
He is married to Nuntawan Prasobdee and has one child. His younger sister, Naruemon Tharndamrong[2] (Thai: นฤมล ธารดำรงค์), was named one of 26 red-shirt political officers while serving as advisor to the Labor Minister.
Pracha was an unsuccessful candidate for the Palang Dharma Party several times. He was elected as an MP for the first time in 2001 for the Thai Rak Thai Party. He was shot and injured by a hitman in May 2011,[3] before the 2011 general election, but won the election. In 2012, he was appointed as deputy interior minister in Yingluck cabinet.