![]() ![]() That alarmed the royalist establishment, whose courts quickly dissolved the party and banned its leaders from politics. SULLIVAN: Move Forward's predecessor, Future Forward, burst onto the scene ahead of the 2019 election, a brand-new party that took aim at the military and the monarchy and finished a surprising third. I'm the prime ministerial candidate for Thailand from Move Forward Party. PITA LIMJAROENRAT: My name is Pita Limjaroenrat. Then there's the Harvard-educated businessman whose progressive party hopes to reclaim what he calls the lost decade under military-backed rule. MICHAEL SULLIVAN, BYLINE: The leading candidates for prime minister include two former coup leaders, a health minister who just decriminalized dope and the heir to a political dynasty whose father and aunt were both deposed by the military and are now in exile. ![]() NPR's Michael Sullivan has this report from Bangkok. ![]() Voters in Thailand will go to the polls on Sunday for an election that will see the military and its proxy parties trying to extend their nine-year-long rule. ![]()
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