"Thai Youth and Opposition Parties Shake Up 2023 Elections"
Move Forward, the successor party to Future Forward, is the most radical party contesting Thailand's general election this month. The party's popularity in opinion polls has been surging again, alarming rivals, and many polls put its leader, Pita Limjaroenrat, as the preferred candidate for prime minister. Move Forward's support for royal reform no longer seems so shocking, and more Thais seem willing to back the party's broader agenda for change. The party's slate of young, idealistic candidates hope to break the cycle of military coups, street protests, and broken democratic promises in which the country has been trapped for two decades.