A profile of Prit Wacharasindhu, former president of the Oxford University Student Union and advocate for constitutional reform, who has been nominated by the People's Party to contest the Speaker of the House seat against Sophon Sarum from the Blue Camp.
On 15 March 2026, during a House of Representatives session, a key agenda was the electionof the Speaker of the House.For the positions of Speaker and Deputy Speakers of the House, totaling three posts, Pakornwut Udompipatsakul, a party-list MP from the People's Party, nominated Prit Wacharasindhu, also a party-list MP from the People's Party, as a candidate for Speaker, competing against Sophon Sarum, MP for Buriram from the Bhumjaithai Party, who is closely connected to the Buriram influential family.
Prit Wacharasindhu, nicknamed "Ice Cream," was born on 10 December 1992 and will turn 34 years old in 2026. He is the son of Professor Dr. Sutthipong Wacharasindhu, a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Chulalongkorn University and president of the Thai Pediatric Endocrine Society, and Professor Dr. Alisa Wacharasindhu, head of the Child Psychiatry Unit in the Department of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. His mother is the elder sister of Abhisit Vejjajiva, former prime minister and current leader of the Democrat Party, and the younger sister of Ngamphan Vejjajiva, a S.E.A. Write Award-winning author.
Prit has one older brother, Pasut Wacharasindhu, nicknamed Atom, who graduated in economics from the University of Cambridge, England.
Ice Cream Prit graduated from Chulalongkorn University Demonstration School and Shrewsbury International School. He received a King's Scholarship to study at Eton College in England and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford. Due to his outstanding abilities, he was elected president of the Oxford Union, becoming the first Thai and first Southeast Asian to hold this position.
Political Career of Prit Wacharasindhu
While studying in England, Prit was also a member of the Young Democrat project and interned at the Prime Minister's Office during Abhisit's tenure, marking his first exposure to high-level political administration at the age of 16-17.
In 2015, after graduating, Prit worked as a Management Consultant at McKinsey, handling projects across Southeast Asia for three years. He resigned in 2018 to fully enter politics with the Democrat Party, preparing for elections. He co-founded the NewDem group (New Generation Democrats) with Dr. Egg Kanawat Chantralaon, Pluem Surabot Lekphai, son of Chuan Leekpai, Phrom Phromphong Panwichean, Nan Siripa Intawichian, Idea Suchada Tanthap, and Tan Jitpas Kridakorn to modernize the party's image and promote progressive liberal policies such as abolishing conscription, LGBTQ+ rights, and medical cannabis legalization.
However, in 2019, the Democrat Party lost the election to the Pheu Thai Party, securing only 53 seats. Abhisit resigned as party leader, succeeded by Jurin Laksanawisit, and the party decided to join a coalition government with the Palang Pracharath Party to support Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. Despite Abhisit's prior stance against coups, this led some NewDem members to resign. Subsequently, Prit submitted his resignation letter, stating, “I apologize that what you have is not what you chose,” and took a political hiatus.
Later, he founded and served as CEO of StartDee, an education technology (EdTech) startup aimed at expanding educational opportunities for Thai children. He also established the Re-Solution group to campaign for amending the 2017 constitution and abolishing the Senate, which brought him into close collaboration with Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and Piyabutr Saengkanokkul. This led him to join the Move Forward Party in 2022, where he was appointed Policy Campaign Manager and elected as a party-list MP after the party won the most seats.
Within the party, he has played a key role in promoting policies such as military reform, especially abolishing conscription, which he had advocated since NewDem days and refined under the Move Forward Party. His education policies aim to achieve truly free education by reducing hidden costs, "returning teachers to students" by minimizing paperwork to allow more teaching time, and reforming curricula to focus on practical 21st-century skills rather than rote memorization. He also advocates for a fully elected constitutional drafting assembly (100% elected). He served as the Move Forward Party’s spokesperson succeeding Rangsiman Rome and continued as spokesperson for the People's Party, led by Natthapong, after the former's dissolution.
Most recently, during today’s session for the electionof the Speaker of the House,Deputy Speakers of the House,and representatives,Pakornwut Udompipatsakul, a party-list MP from the People's Party, nominated Prit Wacharasindhu as a candidate for Speaker of the House.