Based on the counting of ballots in 97% of polling stations, the two pro-democracy opposition parties in Thailand inflicted a severe defeat on the outgoing government supported by the army. The Move Forward party, whose progressive discourse echoes the massive protests of 2020, is well on its way to becoming the main force in the next parliament.
But from the reform of the harsh lese majeste law to the end of compulsory conscription, his radical agenda could create new tensions with the military-royalist elite.