(9 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand – 09 August 2024
1. Various key leaders of new political party, the People’s Party, holding hands before media to mark the party’s inauguration
2. Various of lawmakers of new party arriving at venue for first meeting
3. Wide of meeting room with lawmakers and key members sitting
4. Mid of lawmaker Chonthicha Jangrew, a prominent royal reform campaigner
5. Mid of Rangsiman Rome, a prominent member of previous Move Forward Party
6. Mid of Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, the leader of new party
7. Wide of Sirikanya Tansakul, new party’s deputy leader, walking in
8. Wide of key leaders at news conference
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, Leader of People’s Party
“I think that we strongly believe we are going to continue our beliefs, our ideologies our policies to bring prosperity to Thai people. We are not going to make change to deal with the old political parties, we are going to make change to our country to have a better politics and to bring the good society to Thailand. And the last one, I think that, I want Thai people and the world to believe in us”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand – 07 August 2024
10. Main figure of Move Forward Party, Pita Limjaroenrat, leaving the Constitutional Court just after the judges announced the dissolution of the party for its policy of reform of the royal defamation law
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand – 09 August 2024
11. Wide of media
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Parit Wacharasindhu, People’s Party
“There is still room to talk about the issue of amending Article 112. That is still within the bounds of the Constitutional Court verdict, whether it is a conversation about reducing penalties, whether it is conversation about restricting the right of who has the right to file a complaints process. So I think those are conversations that are still possible within the solution space and these are the things we can use parliament as a mechanic (mechanism) to find a solution that is a consensus for all sides and all Thai people”
13. Wide of media
14. Wide of People’s Party leaders posing for media
STORYLINE:
Two days after Thailand’s Move Forward party – which won most seats in last year’s general election – was dissolved by legal order, a new political force has risen from its ashes, pledging to carry on its progressive agenda.
Its former lawmakers and members announced Friday the formation of the People’s Party and held their inaugural meeting in Bangkok.
Thai law allows them to transfer to a different party within 60 days and retain their MP status.
All those still eligible to be lawmakers made the switch.
At a news conference afterwards, its leading figures said the new party would be “unwavering in our commitment to deliver the changes we think are necessary and to the benefit of the people”.
“I think that we strongly believe we are going to continue our beliefs, our ideologies our policies to bring prosperity to Thai people. We are not going to make change to deal with the old political parties, we are going to make change to our country to have a better politics and to bring the good society to Thailand,” said new installed leader Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut.
“I want Thai people and the world to believe in us,” he said.
Move Forward, led then by Pita Limjaroenrat, won 151 seats in last year’s election. He was at the Constitutional Court on Wednesday to hear the judges dissolve the party for its pledge to amend Article 112 of the criminal code.
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