Rukchanok Srinork is a former pro-democracy activist who joined street protests against the military establishment
t the small Bangkok shophouse that Rukchanok Srinork uses as an office, the floor is cluttered with stacks of campaign signs and leaflets. There are bottles of Fanta and fruit donated by her supporters . And, by the entrance stand her team’s well-known bicycles.
“We thought we could win,” Rukchanok said in an interview this week. “We didn’t expect to win this big.Rukchanok waves to supporters outside her campaign headquarters in Bangkok.Rukchanok’s campaign for Move Forward was run on a more modest budget than others, she said. In the mornings, she stood at a road junction, using the 90 or so seconds when traffic stopped at the red lights to shout her campaign messages through a megaphone.
It has a strong support base of young people, many of whom took part in monarchy reform protests in 2020. Some of the party’s MPs, including Rukchanok, were on the frontlines of such rallies and have since been charged with lese-majesty. She secured a place at Bangkok’s elite Thammasat University and funded her studies by tutoring children and through selling items on social media, where she built a big online following.
Many other young people have made the same shift, she said, adding that the political discussion today was very different and more free compared with 10 years ago.
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