Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the Progressive Movement, speaks at a training session for prospective candidates for local elections at the Thai Summit building in Bangkok on Saturday. (Photo from Progressive Movement)The Progressive Movement, an offshoot of the disbanded Future Forward Party led by Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, aims to field candidates for more than half the seats in local administration elections. “We will field candidates to compete in local elections at all levels under the same banner, ideologies and policy frameworks,” he said at a training session for the new candidates held in Bangkok on Saturday. After that, its remaining 50 MPs joined an existing party that had no MP and rebranded it as the Move Forward Party. Mr Thanathorn and the banned executives formed the Progressive Movement to push the same agenda outside Parliament.

Source: Bangkok Post July 04, 2020 12:56 UTC