BANGKOK: A 40-year-old tycoon who has become the darling of Thai millennials thanks to his sharp social media messaging on Wednesday decried efforts t...
Thai tycoon Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the Future Forward Party, greets supporters on arrival at the Office of the Attorney General in Bangkok on Feb 27, 2019. Thanatorn faces charges over anti-junta speech on Facebook ahead of the March 24 national election.
He has disrupted the Thai political scene, offering a fresh option to the long-standing binary political choice between a royalist, military-aligned bloc or the populist parties of billionaire ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra. He and two other party officials could face five years in jail if convicted of spreading false information about the junta in a Facebook live broadcast last year.“I think people understand that as the popularity of Future Forward rises ... there are efforts to kick out my legs. But we will keep moving forward.”Thanathorn later took to Twitter, warning his 182,000 followers “this is not the last hurdle that will obstruct us”.
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