'To be clear, I won the election': Thai opposition leader Pita Limjaroenrat speaks to FRANCE 24
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2024
- Pita Limjaroenrat, the former leader of the Move Forward Party, won the most votes in Thailand’s 2023 general election but was blocked from becoming prime minister - and his party excluded from the governing coalition - over calls to reform Thailand’s strict lèse-majesté laws, which prohibit criticism of the royal family. Limjaroenrat tells FRANCE 24 his party merely wants to find a balance between respecting royalty and freedom of speech in Thailand, which has some of the strictest royal insult laws in the world.
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This is a man who should be the PM but was blocked by a powerful figure.
Nonsese. He obviously dooms himself. Phony PM.🤣🤣
Yes , Absolutely .
So proud of you guys, Pita and MFP! Never stop, keep moving forward!!! 🧡
Even though Pita couldn’t be a prime minister but he maintains his integrity. That makes us proud! 🙏🧡
Pita won but he got blocked by senators. We still very proud of him and his party, tho. Thanks for having him an interview. Merci 🧡
Not only the senators, but the k…..
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The man who should be the PM so far.
Pita has lead his party to victory free and clear without paying people to vote for him. The victory was clean and straightforward, which no other political party in Thailand has done before.
Pita and his party continue to work hard to ensure that the Thai people receive all benefits they deserve.
If Pita gets a chance to be the prime Minister of Thailand, we believe from what we have seen he and his party’s work that he will greatly improve the system and lead Thailand to world recognition. There will be less corruption, the police and military will have better benefits and treatment, the older generation will be taken good care of. The young generation will have better opportunities and good future. The people of Thailand will have a justice system that is fair to all, not just the rich. Currently the rich and powerful can do no wrong and jail is only the poor. The environment will be protected and maintained. There will be a great system to ensure garbage and dangerous chemicals will be properly disposed of, without harming the environment and the lives of the people.
Currently, Pita is facing the old powerful establishments who are trying to block him from becoming government because the establishments are afraid that they would not be able to control the people and their corruption will be stopped.
It has been more than twenty years that the establishments prevented and dissolved any party or people who tried to lead Thailand to a true democracy.
So proud of you .I will support Pita . Your are my PM🧡🧡🧡🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
are you vietnamese?
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What Pita didn’t say is how/why these senators are so powerful, so powerful they could block the winner. Where were their power coming from and how ugly this senate process is.
Prayuth wants to be re-elected, so he designed the constitution to be elected twice by the senators. Unfortunately, his party lost heavily, so he has to give the post to the current PM.
The people elected PM. Let’s keep moving forward 🧡🧡🧡
Impressive - very intelligent, very bold
As long as the MFP keeps its strong and farsighted policies, I'll support it all my heart.
He’s my PM 🧡
The fascist junta had better look at what happened to their friends in Myanmar, and give their people freedom soon.
This is my real PM of Thailand 🧡🧡🧡
We always proud of you and our party.😊😊
PITA my PM
Respect and so proud of you Mr. Pita, the real PM. who was elected by most of Thai people.
He’s so well spoken. I’m impressed.
The dreamer is the winner , who never give up (Nelson Mandela)
Keep moving we always your backup as long as hit the goal ! 🧡✌️
Fluent articulate and macro - he should lead the country some time - the last time we witnessed a similar articulate person was Khun Anand - an Oxford graduate
I’m proud having Pita too🎉
Proud of you, Pitha.
Thai voters made him a winner but………………he was betrayed……………
So regarding to the election system and these senators. what's the purpose for thai citizens to vote ?
Sounds very close to Biden and Blinken's "Let me be very clear." Something one says when trying to get the attention of the disinterested
King not allowed him to be prime minister
Yes, this is a true story 😢
@@IrishKnightleyThai king think that he is not loyalty to him
Don't worry your time will come my friend be proud of your self some day you will get there
Pround of You
in Thai politics The Prime Minister is the person who can muster a majority in the House of Representatives. Not the person who received the most votes in the election. Mr. Pitha received the highest number of votes in the election. But less than half and no one wants to work with this person.
IT'S Prayuuth team that blocked him, under the Royal orders.
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Thailand should now have a visionary-brave leader like Pita. However, the Invisible hand(s) does not EXIST only in Free economics, but also in Thailand’s politics , too 🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊
he looks alot older compared to 1 year ago.
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9:37 Thailand doesn't want me
Respected Sir 1 year ago I voted for him I hope you come back in role PM of Thailand.
Well done.Pita
It's not done yet!!
hopeful man pita
Why the USA has not said anything about Thailand's democracy as they have done in other poorer countries?
He did not break his word to be the shame PM. He is the real PM anyway
so unfair
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9:34
They disrespected the people's voices. It won't be a problem if Thailand is admitted that it's a totalitarian state. But since Thailand claimed to be "Democratic-monarchy", the oppression to people's voices raised the constitutional problem.
The voice of the people is reflected through the number of MPs who vote to choose the Prime Minister. which Mr. Pitha is not in the majority. Therefore he did not become Prime Minister. It's that simple.
@@PaulChan1329 how much do you know about the entire story as to why he didn't become the prime minister?
He lives in the dream. Don't know when to wake up!🤣🤣
The interviewer is kind of robotic and reading off some script
He was robbed
Whatever you say handsome
In 1636, the founding fathers of Harvard University chose Veritas (truth in Latin) as the motto which reflects the university's commitment to the pursuit of truth and knowledge as the ultimate goal of education. Based on this 388 yrs old motto, with hundreds of thousand students graduated, it appears that some graduates failed to remember the school’s motto. One of them is Pita. Since becoming Thailand politician, he has been founded to publicly make numerous falsehoods/false claims. In fact, he's very good at making rhetoric based on a piece of factual data out of the whole context and spins it to fit his aims of stirring up troubles for the country, and discrediting others (Thailand and former ruling cabinet led by Gen Prayuth in particular).
The guy does a good video
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Thailand is still land of smiles.
It's absolutely a distortion of facts. The facts are his party received more votes than other parties but the total votes were only about 30% of the total voters who went to the poll to cast their votes nation wide. He, his party & everyone/every party knew that based on the 30% votes his party won, his party got only about 151 MPs out of the 500 total MPs plus 250 Senators, which was not enough to win the right to be the ruling government outright. Just like many democratic countries around the world & even in Europe, his party was given the right first to form a coalition government which they tried by courting the Phue Thai party that won about 140 MP seats. But the combined total was still below half of 750 - so, they lobbied hard for the 250 senators to vote for them. However, they failed so badly to win a sizable vote from the senators because these senators (seasoned professionals from all specialized fields with proven success in their long career who are more mature & not belonging to any political party) deemed that Pita & his party did not have all the qualifications required to be the Prime Minister and the party to be the gov't for the nation.
It is absolutely true.
The king knew he report to foreign.
Pita PM =Thailand is over
Tell them that we use the same system as theirs. We copied the laws and rules from them. Tell the truth.
Pita is one of the best Thai new generation POLITICIAN of Thailand
Democracy is not for the country full of stupid and corruptions. We need better people having right to vote, so better leader, then better country. Every country needs a strong and good leader who capable of making a better quality people in the country. This guy is playing “a fresh new hope” but it is not true. This makes me sick and lose faith in my own people and my country.
Lol nice try IO. He isnt playing a fresh new hope. HE IS
He's ioen about what he think, he didn't run away from news reporters when asked challenging questions, he goes on every debate to share his thoughts.
Your previous and current government dies absolutely nothing to better the country. ตระบัตสัตย์ and saying whatever to get them votes and unable to do anything to achieve what they promised.
What you should be suck about is you being born as an IO lmao. เป็นได้แค่ริ่วล้อเผด็จการ and your comments perfectly showcase your disbelief in fellow human.
Errrr, excuse me but everyone sitting in the Thai parliament……”won” not just Pita, you must know the Thai parliament system, before getting the running around, all mighty, know it all Pita. BTW, he doesn’t have a future in politics, Thai politics. Just wait and see.
You won 151 seats, did not mean you won to be PM unless you won 500 seats. Senetors had been selected from people and they are eligible to choose PM who will not harm the nation and put any effort to unite people. This party won votes because their fantasy policy but they could not make it in reality. I did not agree to have him as PM and if you recalled from his history he had not done any good to the country yet.
It is absolutely true.
Agree
Not gonna lie, you are correct
I sure when pita becomes prime minister pita can will rule the country very bad. why the Thailand people easily fooled by pita😂
Pita want expanding and growing his business in company Pita, Thai people have been deceived by pita.😂
Will it be as bad as your English? I hope not.
151 seats out of 500 can be called "winning"? Come on!!
yes, because he won the most votes... what else do you think it means??
Yes, 151 seats out of 500 seat
Yet they win the vote out of the majority of it’s the people, if the system allows him to lose even with that fact in mind, I wouldn’t say the system is that reasonable and all freedom innit?
Bloody jubilant.
I’m not hating on the current government, but to remind that they indeed did not win by vote of Thais but by seats (as you say, as it’s a fact)
Not the most delightful thing.
Yes, it can. The majority vote. In every single voting occurrence, the majority wins. “Come on” spoken like a true shill of this degenerate junta.
The king knew he report to foreign.
Yes they've won the election. MFP has the most support from the people. No single party has that level of support even PTP. If you wanna add something you better get it right.
i dont want this party
Pita is fake & lier
If only those in power would not be blinded by all their overly privileges and can think longer than their own assets and wealths, they may see how their acts have caused an unfunctional democracy and a polarized society.
Despite their wording of their act as decomposing the polarization, their acts and the results proved the opposite. Could the people still hope for someone wise enough in today’s government to be able to see the root of the problem? Eventually accept it and take an action about it as well? 🫠
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