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Thanathorn exploits status as newbie

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told the media that the NCPO will now 'keep an eye' on Future Forward's leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit after his comments a week ago on scrapping the 2017 constitution. (File photo)

Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the newly-registered Future Forward Party was the first new of a new wave of politicians to get on the military regime's nerves.

At his party's first general assembly on May 27, he revealed that his first initiative if his party won a general election, tentatively planned for next year, would be to scrap the 2017 constitution.

From a perspective of many Thais who are not supporters of the current administration, that statement was very bold. From the point of view of those who have witnessed the regime's prosecution of its critics, such remark is not just bold but also brave.

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