(Posted by CAAI News Media)
Bangkok, Nov 24 : Prominent Thai politician Samak Sundaravej, who headed the country's first democratically elected government after the 2006 military takeover, died of cancer today.
The 74-year-old politician, who was judicially ousted from office last year after his anti-coup party swept the December 2007 parliament election, has had a controversial political career, which saw him being associated with the country’s conservative politics over three decades ago.
A popularly elected former governor of Bangkok, Samak became Thailand’s 25th Prime Minister as head of the People's Power Party backed by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted by a section of the armed forces in September 2006.
Samak had to resign in September 2008 after the Constitution Court ruled that his hosting a TV cooking show was in breach of the Constitution.
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