{"id":56787,"date":"2023-07-20T02:56:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/19\/pita-limjaroenrat-the-change-candidate-for-thai-voters-cut-down-by-senators"},"modified":"2023-07-20T02:56:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T17:56:54","slug":"pita-limjaroenrat-thai-voters-change-candidate-cut-down-by-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56787","title":{"rendered":"Pita Limjaroenrat: Thai voters\u2019 change candidate, cut down by senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young pro-reform candidate won over many in the electorate \u2013 but not military appointees who blocked him from being PM<\/p>\n<p>After almost a decade of rule by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/11\/thai-pm-retire-politics-nine-years-power-coup-prayuth-chan-ocha\">former army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha<\/a>, many voters in the recent Thai election longed for change. More than 14 million turned to pro-reform politician Pita Limjaroenrat and his party Move Forward.<\/p>\n<p>Pita, aged 42, is far younger than most politicians in Thailand, and he and his party were able to use social media to reach new voters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/19\/pita-limjaroenrat-the-change-candidate-for-thai-voters-cut-down-by-senators\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young pro-reform candidate won over many in the electorate \u2013 but not military appointees who blocked him from being PMAfter almost a decade of rule by the former army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha, many voters in the recent Thai election longed for change. M&#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-56787","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\/56787","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=56787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56788,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56787\/revisions\/56788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}