Issued on: 11/05/2024 – 14:38Modified: 11/05/2024 – 15:48
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Thai opposition leader Pita Limjaroenrat speaks to FRANCE 24 © FRANCE 24
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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