Somkiat Pongpaiboon

Somkiat Pongpaiboon (Thai script: สมเกียรติ พงษ์ไพบูลย์; 12 January 1950 – 14 November 2021) was a Thai Professor at Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand.

Somkiat was an advocate for the poor and a major critic of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

The party unconventionally planned not to field MP candidates for the first 5 years, while Somkiat claimed that "If we field MP candidates, we will be trapped in vicious circles of money politics."

[2] Somkiat died on 14 November 2021 from cerebral hemorrhage at Maharat Nakhon Ratchasima Hospital.

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