{"id":59095,"date":"2023-10-10T10:06:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T01:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/10\/our-time-will-come-thai-leader-prevented-from-becoming-pm-hails-dawn-of-a-new-era"},"modified":"2023-10-10T10:06:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T01:06:18","slug":"our-time-will-come-thai-leader-prevented-from-becoming-pm-hails-dawn-of-a-new-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59095","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our time will come\u2019: Thai leader prevented from becoming PM hails dawn of a new era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pita Limjaroenrat says time is on the side of his youthful Move Forward party that took on the establishment and shook up Thailand\u2019s \u2018half-baked democracy\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Pita Limjaroenrat is playing the long game. \u201cOur time will come\u201d, he says confidently. Dressed in a crisp striped shirt, the 43-year-old Harvard graduate has a breezy, businesslike manner.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost five months since his reformist party, Move Forward, defied expectations and came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/14\/opposition-parties-take-lead-in-thai-election\">top in Thailand\u2019s elections<\/a>. It\u2019s been quite the rollercoaster since: legal cases were filed against him and the party, he was blocked from taking office by rivals, and he is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/19\/thailand-pm-vote-move-forward-leader-pita-limjaroenrat\">suspended as an MP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/10\/our-time-will-come-thai-leader-prevented-from-becoming-pm-hails-dawn-of-a-new-era\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pita Limjaroenrat says time is on the side of his youthful Move Forward party that took on the establishment and shook up Thailand\u2019s \u2018half-baked democracy\u2019Pita Limjaroenrat is playing the long game. \u201cOur time will come\u201d, he says confidently. Dressed in&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59095","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\/59095","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=59095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59096,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59095\/revisions\/59096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}