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Pita Limjaroenrat

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Pita Limjaroenrat pictured in 2023.

Pita Limjaroenrat (Thai: พิธา ลิ้มเจริญรัตน์, RTGS: Phitha Limcharoenrat, pronounced [pʰí(ʔ).tʰāː lím.tɕā.rɤ̄ːn.rát] ⓘ; born 5 September 1980), nicknamed Tim (Thai: ทิม), is a Thai businessman and politician. A member of the House of Representatives, he previously served as Leader of the Move Forward Party, the de facto successor to the dissolved Future Forward Party, from 2020 to 2023. He led Move Forward to become the largest party in the 2023 general election, winning 151 seats, but resigned as leader of the party in September 2023. He continued to be active in the party, and was reinstated as an MP in January 2024 after a brief suspension from parliamentary duties. After the Move Forward Party was dissolved in August 2024, Pita was banned from politics for 10 years, and he began a fellowship at Harvard University.

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2020

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  • It's not going to be about just two or three individuals anymore. For me, leadership is a constant struggle to manifest changes. No single person can make changes happen. Instead, our remaining 55 MPs will discuss, make agreements and work as a team to keep our momentum going. We are now a leaner organisation that can respond quickly. We will be able to begin afresh. The party is smaller, but of better quality and [will be able to] move faster in responding to required responsibilities. The ideology is the same, but the mechanisms and paths followed are different," he said, adding that each faction will have absolutely no influence on the other and that he will not be involved with the movement.

2023

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  • I’m not planning to be in Thai politics forever. I don’t want to be 70 or 80 and sleeping in the parliament and speaking nonsense about blockchain and AI! I want to be able to pass the baton to the next generation of leaders.

2024

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Even if I don’t have the authority to lead, I felt like I still have the legitimacy to lead.
The progressives, including myself, have to be much smarter and much stronger and also show the people that leadership is not just about fear. It can be about hope and it can be about working together with the people and it can be about empathy.
  • We're seeing these fresh, supposedly new leaders coming in [in Southeast Asia]. Either you call that a succession plan or dynastic politics. Last name politics. A lot of countries are running [their] politics [like a] family business. You can probably think of a few countries apart from Thailand...you are probably thinking about Cambodia...The Philippines...Laos...[It's] not a problem, I mean if you think about Canada, if you think about Shinzō Abe in Japan, [George] Bush [in the United States]...But's it's not really doing well in any other parts of the world.
  • There was a poll asking younger people what ASEAN means to the people in Laos...Thailand...Singaporeans. The result of the research says less than 20% [beleive ASEAN meant anything to them]. They couldn't give a hoot about...ASEAN. Because we cannot get things done! We are not relevant. We are not credible...We get together for meetings and...that Five Point Consensus comes out, and nothing gets done.
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