{"id":56649,"date":"2023-07-14T02:01:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/jul\/13\/bangkok-protests-begin-after-thailands-winning-candidate-blocked-from-power-video-report"},"modified":"2023-07-14T02:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T17:01:53","slug":"bangkok-protests-begin-after-thailands-winning-candidate-blocked-from-power-video-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56649","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok: protests begin after Thailand&#8217;s winning candidate blocked from power \u2013 video report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of Thailand&#8217;s pro-reform party, which won the most seats in May&#8217;s election, has been blocked from taking power by a parliamentary vote that includes military-appointed senators. Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of Move Forward, a progressive party that has a strong youth support base, won the most votes and seats in May&#8217;s election. But Thailand&#8217;s election rules, rewritten after a military coup in 2014, required him to have majority support from parliament to become prime minister. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>After failing to gain a majority of the 749-member parliament, Pita said that he accepted the results but added: &#8216;I&#8217;m not going to give up&#8217;. Move Forward supporters gathered in the capital of Bangkok to express their anger over the result, holding signs reading: &#8216;Respect my vote&#8217;. The progressive party had campaigned on the promise of major reforms, including breaking up monopolies, ending military conscription, removing the military\u2019s influence from politics and amending a strict law that forbids criticism of the monarchy<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/13\/winning-thailand-candidate-for-pm-blocked-from-power-pita-limjaroenrat\">Thailand\u2019s winning candidate for PM blocked from power<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/jul\/13\/bangkok-protests-begin-after-thailands-winning-candidate-blocked-from-power-video-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of Thailand&#8217;s pro-reform party, which won the most seats in May&#8217;s election, has been blocked from taking power by a parliamentary vote that includes military-appointed senators. Pita Limjaroenrat, leader of Move Forward, a progressive party &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[80,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protest","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\/56649","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56650,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56649\/revisions\/56650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}