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Thai businessman and politician

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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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Native Name: พิธา ลิ้มเจริญรัตน์

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We still have to think of politics as a long game...And to win a long game, you need strategy and you need patience.

If there's any partnership that [can] come close to a reality, it would be Australia and ASEAN. Because we are natural partners of choice. We're at the same strategic ecosystem...We rely on one superpower for security. We also rely on one superpower for prosperity.

To be clear, I won the election...a lot of hopes and dreams of Thais all around the world...didn't translate into governance here in Thailand.

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.

The health of a democracy is not measured by how absolute or powerful the government is, but by how fair, active and robust the opposition is.