{"id":56643,"date":"2023-07-14T00:39:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/13\/winning-thailand-candidate-for-pm-blocked-from-power-pita-limjaroenrat"},"modified":"2023-07-14T00:39:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T15:39:57","slug":"thailands-winning-candidate-for-pm-blocked-from-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56643","title":{"rendered":"Thailand\u2019s winning candidate for PM blocked from power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pita Limjaroenrat fails to get parliamentary backing required to take office but can run again<\/p>\n<p>The leader of Thailand\u2019s pro-reform party has been blocked from taking power by a parliamentary vote that includes military-appointed senators despite winning the most seats in the election in May.<\/p>\n<p>Pita Limjaroenrat\u2019s progressive Move Forward party, which campaigned on a promise of change after nine years of rule by a former army chief, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/14\/opposition-parties-take-lead-in-thai-election\">gained the most votes<\/a> two months ago, but election rules rewritten after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/may\/22\/thailand-army-chief-announces-military-coup\">military coup in 2014<\/a> require him to have majority support from parliament to become prime minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/13\/winning-thailand-candidate-for-pm-blocked-from-power-pita-limjaroenrat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pita Limjaroenrat fails to get parliamentary backing required to take office but can run againThe leader of Thailand\u2019s pro-reform party has been blocked from taking power by a parliamentary vote that includes military-appointed senators despite winning&#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":[41,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56643","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=56643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56644,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56643\/revisions\/56644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}