What is the personality type of Suthep Thaugsuban? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Suthep Thaugsuban from Government Asia and what is the personality traits.
Suthep Thaugsuban personality type is ENTP, with a dominant function of Extraverted Intuition. ENTP is the most dominant and most common type in Thailand. We would regard the majority of Thais as Extroverts. However, there is a growing proportion of Introverts, who are more sensitive to their surroundings and highly perceptive. They tend to be suspicious of authority, and independent thinking. This makes them very idealistic, and idealistic people can be idealistic revolutionaries.
Suthep was an idealist who believed in the power of the Thai people to overcome the corruption and injustice of the Thaksin regime. But he had no political experience. He was the son of a wealthy family and not a member of the elite. He was a go-getter who wanted to make a name for himself, maybe in business or art. In other words, he had no practical or political grounding in Thai society. He was probably not even literate, unlike his mentor, Chamlong Srimuang, who had been educated at Oxford University.
Suthep tried to lead the Red Shirts to victory over the Thaksin regime by overthrowing it with the power of his mandate from the people.
Suthep Thaugsuban (Thai: สุเทพ เทือกสุบรรณ; RTGS: Suthep Thueaksuban, [sù.tʰêːp tʰɯ̂ːak.sù.ban]) (born 7 July 1949) is a Thai former politician and former Member of Parliament for Surat Thani province. Until 2011, he was secretary-general of the Democrat Party and a deputy prime minister under Abhisit Vejjajiva. He resigned his seat in Parliament in November 2013 to become the self-appointed Secretary-general of the People's Democratic Reform Committee, which was conducting mass protests trying to unseat the government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. After the military coup of May 22, 2014, Suthep was temporarily detained and placed under arrest by the new junta.[2] He was released after four days, retired from politics, and entered Buddhist monastichood from July 2014 to July 2015.[3] Since, he became the leader of the Muan Maha Prachachon for Reform Foundation (the People’s Democratic Reform Foundation) that backed [4] the junta sponsored Thai constitutional referendum,[5][6]