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born 1980 Thailand
Pita Limjaroenrat (Thai: พิธา ลิ้มเจริญรัตน์, RTGS: Phitha Limcharoenrat, pronounced [pʰí(ʔ).tʰāː lím.tɕā.rɤ̄ːn.rát] ⓘ; born 5 September 1980), nicknamed Tim (Thai: ทิม), is a Thai businessman and politician. A member of the House of Representatives, he previously served as Leader of the Move Forward Party, the de facto successor to the dissolved Future Forward Party, from 2020 to 2023.
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If there is a rule of law in Thailand, I’m extremely confident the party’s arguments will prevail.
When people ask me 'How do you feel that you have failed?' and I would respond back to them that I won, I formed, and I got blocked. I didn't fail.
The progressives, including myself, have to be much smarter and much stronger and also show the people that leadership is not just about fear. It can be about hope and it can be about working together with the people and it can be about empathy.
The promotion of fundamental rights will be the guiding star of Thai foreign policy.
We still have to think of politics as a long game...And to win a long game, you need strategy and you need patience.
The health of a democracy is not measured by how absolute or powerful the government is, but by how fair, active and robust the opposition is.
We confuse movement with progress. It’s like we’re stuck in a loop, thinking we’ve gone somewhere, but we’re not.
To be clear, I won the election...a lot of hopes and dreams of Thais all around the world...didn't translate into governance here in Thailand.
We must not allow the abuse of legal mechanisms or the manipulation of constitutional processes to silence the voices of the people or undermine the integrity of our elections.
I feel like it’s a vicious cycle. We keep going around in circles, and we never move forward...They can never take away our legacy...They can never take away our ideology.
My favourite leader in the world who I look up to is Jacinda Ardern. I think she proved to the world during the COVID crisis and during the Christchurch massacre that you don’t have to be a ‘strongman’ with fear tactics and a militant background to resolve crises for the country.
I’m confident that by 2027, when we will have the next election, our political horizons will be closer. Whatever our party name will be… we will absolutely be ready.
In a constitutional monarchy, we want the King to be above politics, and we don't want any other political opponents to use lèse-majesté law to punish destroy political political opponents and push the youth away from the monarchy.
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