ime Ministers
Gen. (Ret.) CHAWALIT Yongchaiyut (since NA), DET Bunlong (since NA),
PHITHAK Intharawithayanan (since NA), PONGPHON Adireksan (since NA), and
Council of Ministers elections: members of the House of Representatives;
following a national election for
the House of Representatives, the leader of the party that can organize
a majority coalition usually becomes prime minister

Legislative branch: bicameral National Assembly or Rathasapha consists
of the Senate or Wuthisapha (200 seats; members elected by popular
vote to serve four-year terms) and the House of Representatives or
Sapha Phuthaen Ratsadon (500 seats; members elected by popular vote to
serve four-year terms) elections: Senate - last held 4 March, 29 April,
4 June, 9 July, and 22 July 2000 (next to be held NA March 2004); House
of Representatives - last held 6 January 2001 (next to be held NA January
2005) election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats
by party - NA; House of Representatives - percent of vote by party -
NA%; seats by party - TRT 248, DP 128, TNP 41, NAP 36, NDP 29, other 18

Judicial branch: Supreme Court or Sandika (judges appointed by the
monarch)

Political parties and leaders: Democratic Party or DP (Prachathipat
Party) [CHUAN Likphai]; Mass Party or MP [CHALERM Yoobamrung, SOPHON
Petchsavang]; National Development Party or NDP (Chat Phattana)
[KORN Dabbaransi]; Phalang Dharma Party or PDP (Phalang Tham) [CHAIWAT
Sinsuwong]; Solidarity Party or SP (Ekkaphap Party) [CHAIYOT Sasomsap];
Thai Citizen's Party or TCP (Prachakon Thai) [SAMAK Sunthonwet]; Thai
Nation Party or TNP (Chat Thai Party) [BANHAN Sinlapa-acha]; Thai Rak
Thai Party or TRT [THAKSIN Chinnawat] note: the Liberal Democratic Party
or LDP (Seri Tham) and the New Aspiration Party or NAP (Khwamwang Mai)
no longer exist as separate parties; elements of the two parties joined
the Thai Rak Thai Party or TRT

Political pressure groups and leaders: NA

International organization participation: APEC, ARF, AsDB, ASEAN, BIS,
CCC, CP, ESCAP, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD,
IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, NAM, OAS
(observer), OIC (observer), OPCW (signatory), OSCE (partner), PCA, UN,
UNAMSIL, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNITAR, UNMIBH, UNTAET,
UNU, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO

Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador SAKTHIP
Krairiksh chancery: