Prinya Thewanaruemitkul

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Prinya Thewanaruemitkul is a former Thai student leader and currently a member of the Faculty of Law at Thammasat Univerisity. During the 1992 protests against the military-led government that led to Bloody May, Prinya was Secretary-General of the Student Federation of Thailand.^[1] He was a student at Thammasat University at the time. Prinya later a M.Jus from the University of Göttingen. He currently lectures in constitutional law and is Vice-Rector of the University.^[2] Along with his colleague Banjerd Singkaneti, Prinya was a leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy, a group active in 2006 in attempting to bring down the government of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.^[3]

[edit] Proposals for constitutional reform

Prinya has made several proposals for reform of the Constitution of Thailand. These include the eliminating of the requirement that candidates for the House of Representatives must be members of a political party for at least 90 days prior to an election. The requirement was originally designed to increase the affiliation that politicians have for political parties, thus increasing the strength of party-based politics. Prinya made the suggestion during the Thailand political crisis 2005-2006, during which there was growing public pressure to allow Thai Rak Thai politicians to more easily defect from their party.^[4]