{"id":56607,"date":"2023-07-12T10:39:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T01:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/12\/democracy-on-the-line-in-thailand-as-parliament-set-to-vote-on-new-pm"},"modified":"2023-07-13T02:31:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T17:31:49","slug":"democracy-on-the-line-in-thailand-as-parliament-set-to-vote-on-new-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56607","title":{"rendered":"Democracy on the line in Thailand as parliament to vote on new PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after Move Forward\u2019s election gains, Thais will find out whether party\u2019s leader can become prime minister<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s parliament will gather for a high-stakes vote on Thursday that will determine whether the leader of the country\u2019s most popular and progressive party can take power after almost a decade of rule by the former army chief who seized power in a military coup.<\/p>\n<p>The Move Forward party, which campaigned promising major changes to the economy and Thailand\u2019s power structures, shocked opponents by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/14\/opposition-parties-take-lead-in-thai-election\">winning the most seats<\/a> in May\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/12\/democracy-on-the-line-in-thailand-as-parliament-set-to-vote-on-new-pm\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after Move Forward\u2019s election gains, Thais will find out whether party\u2019s leader can become prime ministerThailand\u2019s parliament will gather for a high-stakes vote on Thursday that will determine whether the leader of the country\u2019s most popula&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56634,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56607\/revisions\/56634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}