The leader of a new political party that gained prominence in Thailand's election last month has been charged with sedition. Thanathorn is part of the opposition alliance trying to unseat the military junta.
Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, the leader of Thailand's progressive Future Forward Party, is denying charges of sedition filed against him by the ruling military government, and accuses the junta of trying to break up his party.
His anti-junta movement came third in March's elections after campaigning on a pledge to oust army chief Prayuth Chan-oocha, who has kept a tight grip on power since a 2014 coup. A guilty conviction could cost the 40-year-old Thanathorn his seat in parliament, delivering a blow to an alliance of opposition parties trying to form a government. The party, formed in March, 2018, won 18% of the votes and 87 seats in the nation's 500-seat parliament in this March's election.
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