{"id":32011,"date":"2023-05-13T04:01:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T04:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=32011"},"modified":"2023-05-13T04:03:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T04:03:57","slug":"move-forward-galvanises-thai-voters-with-vows-of-royal-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=32011","title":{"rendered":"Move Forward galvanises Thai voters with vows of royal reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AL Jazeera News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bangkok, Thailand \u2013<\/strong> On a busy intersection outside the Thai capital Bangkok, a young woman with a heavy megaphone urged passersby to vote for her in Sunday\u2019s general election, promising a \u201cnew kind of politics\u201d that would curb the monarchy and the military\u2019s stranglehold over the Southeast Asian country\u2019s affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s time for change,\u201d 30-year-old Chonthicha Jangrew said on Thursday, her voice slightly hoarse from months on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been under military rule for nine years. It\u2019s time to remove the military from Thai politics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chonthicha, who goes by the name \u201cLookkate\u201d, is at the vanguard of the youth-led Move Forward Party (MFP) that has energised Thailand\u2019s voters, young and old alike. For too long, the choice for voters in the country of 71 million has either been parties aligned with the royalist-military establishment or that of self-exiled billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra. The fierce power struggle between the two sides has kept the country at a political standstill for nearly two decades, with the governments of Thaksin and his sister, Yingluck, removed in military coups in 2006 and 2014, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Chonthicha\u2019s constituency, Pathum Thani province, 41km (26 miles) north of Bangkok, the appetite for change appeared high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many people on their morning commute paused briefly, rolling down their windows to flash a thumbs up and offer words of support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL Jazeera News: Bangkok, Thailand \u2013 On a busy intersection outside the Thai capital Bangkok, a young woman with a heavy megaphone urged passersby to vote for her in Sunday\u2019s general election, promising a \u201cnew kind of politics\u201d that would curb the monarchy and the military\u2019s stranglehold over the Southeast Asian country\u2019s affairs. \u201cIt\u2019s time for change,\u201d 30-year-old Chonthicha Jangrew said on Thursday, her voice slightly hoarse from months on the campaign trail. \u201cWe\u2019ve been under military rule for nine years. It\u2019s time to remove the military from Thai politics.\u201d Chonthicha, who goes by the name \u201cLookkate\u201d, is at the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32013,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32011\/revisions\/32013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}