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Rebecca Ratcliffe and Pirada Anuwech in Bangkok

‘We’re starting a new era’: Thailand’s giant-killing MP Ice on her election upset

Rukchanok Srinork at her campaign headquarters in Bangkok.
Rukchanok Srinork: ‘We thought we could win. We didn’t expect to win this big.’ Photograph: Jack Taylor/The Guardian

At 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 (orange is her party’s colour). And, by the entrance stand her team’s well-known bicycles.

Rukchanok, also known as Ice, is one of many young MPs with the progressive Move Forward party, which stunned observers by taking the most seats in last Sunday’s election in Thailand.

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