The former populist leader arrived in Bangkok as his party Pheu Thai struck a deal—in a blow to the country’s growing democracy movement—with the establishment.
“Pheu Thai will pay a heavy price,” says Aim Sinpeng, a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. “Because their stance for decades is that they're not going to be with the old elites, and now they are.”
It’s a cynical marriage of convenience between two camps that remain sworn enemies. But in Move Forward, the Thai elite found itself facing something far scarier than a brash, ambitious tycoon. If Thaksin tried to co-opt existing institutions for his own ends, Move Forward sought to upend them altogether, vowing to abolishThe resounding victory for Move Forward’s bold manifesto spooked the elites into doing a deal with their archnemesis.
It’s certainly a dark day for Thailand’s democracy movement, which was dancing in the street following Move Forward’s. Since then, however, party leader Pita Limjaroenrat has been barred from serving as a lawmaker over allegations that he held shares in a defunct media company, contravening byzantine parliamentary rules. .
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