Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut
Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut | |
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| ณัฐพงษ์ เรืองปัญญาวุฒิ | |
Official portrait, 2025 | |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
| In office 25 September 2024 – 12 December 2025 | |
| Monarch | Vajiralongkorn |
| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | Chaithawat Tulathon |
| Leader of the People's Party | |
| Assumed office 9 August 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Chaithawat Tulathon (Move Forward Party; de facto) |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| Assumed office 24 March 2019 | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 May 1987 Songkhla, Thailand |
| Party | People's (since 2024) |
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| Spouse | Natthaporn Chan-in |
| Alma mater | Chulalongkorn University (BEng) |
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| Nickname | Teng (เท้ง) |
Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut (Thai: ณัฐพงษ์ เรืองปัญญาวุฒิ, RTGS: Natthaphong Rueangpanyawut; born 18 May 1987) is a Thai politician and businessman who has served as the leader of the Opposition and leader of the People's Party since 2024. He has also been a member of the House of Representatives since 2019.
Born in Songkhla and raised in Bangkok, Natthaphong graduated from Chulalongkorn University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in computer engineering. He then founded Absolute Management Solutions, a cloud service company where he served as an executive. In 2018, Natthaphong joined the Future Forward Party and the entered politics the following year and was elected to the House of Representatives for Bangkok's 28th Constituency (Bang Khae) in the 2019 general election.
In 2020, Natthaphong joined the Move Forward Party after the Future Forward Party was dissolved by the Constitutional Court. In 2023, he was re-elected to the House of Representatives as a party-list MP in the general election. In April 2024, Natthaphong served on a Move Forward Party seminar for the digital wallet scheme proposed by then–Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, where Natthaphong raised doubts the readiness of the Tang Rat app. In August of the same year, the Constitutional Court dissolved the Move Forward Party and Natthaphong joined the People's Party and was chosen as party leader on 9 August.
In September 2025, following the removal of Paetongtarn Shinawatra as prime minister, Natthaphong endorsed Anutin Charnvirakul, the leader of the Bhumjaithai Party and the former coalition partner of Paetongtarn's party Pheu Thai, for prime minister, in an exchange for the House of Representatives to be dissolved with a snap general election being held in four months and as well as constitutional ammendments. While the People's Party will support the minority coalition government of Anutin in a confidence and supply agreement, Natthaphong has stated that his party will remain in opposition and will also not take up any cabinet portfolio.