BANGKOK: Few tipped him seriously as a likely prime minister, but Thai opposition leader Pita Limjaroenrat looks set to play a major role after voters rejected almost a decade of arm
With most of the votes from Sunday's polls counted, Pita's radical Move Forward Party was leading the popular vote ahead of the more established opposition Pheu Thai party.
"We will together rewrite Thai political history. Vote Move Forward, Thailand changes," he told ecstatic supporters at MFP's last rally in Bangkok on Friday. A hugely controversial and sensitive subject, it has long been held as an untouchable in Thai politics. Even opposition rivals Pheu Thai said they would leave the issue to parliament.
However, following his father's death when he was 25, Pita returned home to run his family's heavily-in-debt business Agrifood, turning its fortunes around. He later became executive director of transport and delivery app Grab Thailand.
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