{"id":56637,"date":"2023-07-13T13:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T04:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/13\/leading-thailand-candidate-for-pm-warns-of-high-price-if-blocked-from-power"},"modified":"2023-07-13T13:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T04:23:49","slug":"leading-thailand-candidate-for-pm-warns-of-high-price-if-blocked-from-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56637","title":{"rendered":"Leading Thailand candidate for PM warns of \u2018high price\u2019 if blocked from power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pita Limjaroenrat of Thailand\u2019s Move Forward is facing legal hurdles in the lead up to a vital vote in parliament<\/p>\n<p>The leader of Thailand\u2019s most popular party has warned of a high cost if he is blocked from taking power, after he was dealt a series of blows on the eve of a parliamentary vote to decide the next prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Pita Limjaroenrat\u2019s progressive Move Forward party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/14\/opposition-parties-take-lead-in-thai-election\">won the most seats in May\u2019s election<\/a> after promising major reforms to remove the military from politics, break up powerful monopolies and change Thailand\u2019s lese-majesty law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/13\/leading-thailand-candidate-for-pm-warns-of-high-price-if-blocked-from-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pita Limjaroenrat of Thailand\u2019s Move Forward is facing legal hurdles in the lead up to a vital vote in parliamentThe leader of Thailand\u2019s most popular party has warned of a high cost if he is blocked from taking power, after he was dealt a series of bl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56637","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\/2336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56638,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56637\/revisions\/56638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}