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‘We may not win immediately, but we will win eventually’: Thailand’s almost-PM Pita

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Mr Pita Limjaroenrat greeting the media after leading the Move Forward Party to victory in Thailand's general election in May.

Mr Pita Limjaroenrat greeting the media after leading the Move Forward Party to victory in Thailand's general election in May.

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For a man who could be disqualified as an MP in a month, Mr Pita Limjaroenrat looks relaxed. The former leader of Thailand’s Move Forward Party (MFP) sees himself as a mere cog in the machinery turning the wheels of political change.

“Parties should die because people don’t vote for them” and not because of judicial systems, he said, but the reality in Thailand has been otherwise. He was speaking to The Straits Times on Dec 22, in an interview at his party’s Bangkok headquarters.

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