{"id":66175,"date":"2024-08-12T12:02:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T03:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/12\/pita-limjaroenrat-thailand-move-forward-party-banned-leader-interview"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:02:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T03:02:41","slug":"they-are-trying-to-exterminate-us-thailands-banned-political-leader-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66175","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They are trying to exterminate us\u2019: Thailand\u2019s banned political leader speaks out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Pita Limjaroenrat, whose Move Forward party won the most votes in last year\u2019s election but has been dissolved, vows \u2018you cannot stop spring\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/thailands-lese-majesty-laws-explained-in-30-seconds\">Thailand\u2019s lese majesty laws explained in 30 seconds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s conservative establishment is seeking to exterminate politicians who promised reform, according to the former leader of a popular party that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/thailand-court-ruling-move-forward-party-ntwnfb\">banned by the courts last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pita Limjaroenrat, whose Move Forward party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/19\/thailand-pm-vote-move-forward-leader-pita-limjaroenrat\">won the most votes and most seats in last year\u2019s election<\/a>, said Thailand was trapped in a \u201cdouble lock democracy\u201d where the legal system and military coups were repeatedly being used to undermine election results.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/12\/pita-limjaroenrat-thailand-move-forward-party-banned-leader-interview\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Pita Limjaroenrat, whose Move Forward party won the most votes in last year\u2019s election but has been dissolved, vows \u2018you cannot stop spring\u2019Thailand\u2019s lese majesty laws explained in 30 secondsThailand\u2019s conservative establishment is seeking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"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-66175","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\/66175","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66176,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66175\/revisions\/66176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}