Jermmas Chuenglertsiri

Jermmas Chuenglertsiri (Thai: เจิมมาศ จึงเลิศศิริ) is a Thai female politician who represented Bangkok (constituency one: Phra Nakhon, Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Samphanthawong) in the House of Representatives.

Jermmas was born on July 14, 1959 in Thai-Chinese family in Bangkok, she graduated from Faculty of Political Science, Ramkhamhaeng University and master's degree from National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA).

She started her career as a member of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration Council (BMC), Pom Prap Sattru Phai (two terms). From the beginning she did not have any interest in politics, but she was persuaded by Ek Chuenglertsiri, her husband, who has been an election canvasser of the Democrat Party since 1988. Ek has helped with the campaign for many Democrat MPs such as Marut Bunnag, Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, M.R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra etc.

She became the first MP from the 2005 general election and has since been MP since (three terms to the present). By the 2005 election, she was one of four MPs of the Democrat Party in Bangkok (Jermmas Chuenglertsiri, M.L. Apimongkol Sonakul, Korn Chatikavanij, Ong-Ard Klampaiboon respectively). And she is the only Democrat MP in a country that can win the election over the former MP who was under Thai Rak Thai Party.^[1]

She is currently one of executive board-of-directors of the Democrat Party.^[2][3]

In the election of a new Democrat Party leader in November 2018, she was appointed as one of the five election commission of the party. In the election on March 24, 2019, she is a candidate for election in Bangkok's one constituency, consisting of Phra Nakhon, Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Samphanthawong and Dusit (except Thanon Nakhon Chai Si).

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