Bangkok: The billionaire leader of the newest and most dynamic force in Thai politics says he is “prepared” for jail as legal cases besiege his youth-focused party just weeks after it scooped up millions of votes in a general election.
Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, the charismatic political newcomer whose radical agenda of social and economic reform captured millennial hearts and rattled the ruling junta, appeared at the Election Commission yesterday to explain a disputed share transfer.It was the latest of a battery of moves against Thanathorn, 40, and his Future Forward Party, which secured over six million votes in the March 24 elections but is now hemmed in by 16 separate legal cases.