Move Forward: Reshaping Thai Politics and Challenging Military Rule

2023-07-15 09:43:37

Move Forward supporters in front of the Bangkok Art and Culture Center, July 14, 2023. — © IMAGO/Teera Noisakran / IMAGO/Pacific Press Agency

“It’s clear that Move Forward doesn’t really have a chance of forming a government,” he admitted. “But until that day, we are not going to give up. And I ask everyone to fight until the end,” insisted the leader.

Regarding the elections: In Thailand, the opposition parties win the legislative once morest the military in power

A popular candidate among young people

The darling of the younger generations, the Move Forward party has inflicted a stinging setback at the polls on the army in power since the 2014 coup, on the basis of a program echoing the pro-democracy demonstrations of 2020.

But Pita Limjaroenrat, although supported by a majority coalition in the National Assembly, remains blocked on the steps of power, due to the opposition of senators who consider his profile too radical.

Second force in Parliament, the powerful opposition party Pheu Thai, associated with the former prime minister in exile Thaksin Shinawatra, repeated Friday that it continued to respect the coalition agreement.

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