# Event Details

- **Event Name**: [Talk] The Future of Thai Politics: Building a Progressive Mass Party Amid a Rising Right-Wing Tide
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: [Talk] The Future of Thai Politics: Building a Progressive Mass Party Amid a Rising Right-Wing Tide

Time: 19:00, March 23
Place: Daybreak 破曉咖啡
Speaker: Suphalak Bumroongkit

Before the 2026 general election, political analysts, various polls, and social media sentiment all converged on the prediction that the People's Party would win as the number one party. But the results shattered every expert's pen — because the Bhumjaithai Party won the election, nearly tripling its seats in parliament. Even Bhumjaithai's party leader, Anutin Charnvirakul, admitted the outcome far exceeded expectations. In contrast, parties championing democratic ideals — the People's Party and Pheu Thai — lost a significant number of seats. What does this outcome reflect about Thai society?
After the election, some experts came out to analyze that Bhumjaithai could stay in power for another decade. The party has consolidated forces with multiple elite groups, local godfathers, leveraging various forms of power to secure electoral victory, blocking the People's Party from rising to implement structural reform policies and allowing the established elite to remain in the status quo. How can the democratic camp fight back against this consolidation of the conservative?
Within the People's Party itself, it had risen to become the leading progressive party for two consecutive terms — but what exactly caused this latest sweeping defeat? What does the party believe were the true cause of this defeat?  Amid widespread criticism on many fronts, how will the People's Party adapt to compete in the next election? And what tasks must be accomplished within these four years before the next election?
Even learning the hard truth, that does not mean the party can simply walk the path it wants. Amid a global rightward shift, facing those who hold state power, and confronting lawfare directed at the party, every decision about which direction to steer carries repeated dilemmas — for instance: should the party focus on building networks, serving constituents, and coordinating local matters in rural areas as traditional parties have always done, VS continuing to campaign on policy platforms? How should the party position its ideological spectrum — leaning further left by confronting established structures, or shifting somewhat rightward by speaking in practical, technical, and fiscal terms when implementing policy? And through all of this, can the party's most critical mission — building a welfare state — actually be achieved?
Finally, the case of the 44 MPs is moving toward a verdict, which could lead to rulings against party leadership and potentially trigger party dissolution for the third time. How does the party move forward when its most vital resource — key politicians — is being stripped away time and again, and is not a resource that can easily be rebuilt from scratch?
About the Speaker

Suphalak Bumroongkit (Sek) is a researcher/lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, Chiang Mai University, specializing in labor and welfare policy. He is currently conducting a business and human rights (BHR) research project for TTNC Watch, investigating Taiwanese companies operating in Thailand. Previously, he conducted the Indo-Pacific Electronics Supply Chain Worker Rights Research Project for the U.S. Department of Labour. He serves as Secretary General of the Thailand Northern Labor Network, a coalition of workers and civil society organizations focused on labor rights, migrant rights, welfare, and women's issues in the Northern region of Thailand. He also served on various parliamentary committees about labour, welfare, and SMEs issues in the House of Representatives.
In the 2026 national election, Sek ran as a party-list candidate for the People's Party, ranked 66th. Despite the ranking being too high to realistically secure a seat in parliament, Sek chose to run because he wanted to push left-wing issues into Thai society, where the left-wing movement has been absent from the mainstream for a long time. These issues include universal welfare state, labor rights, and social security. He wanted to use the political space to advocate more for left-wing policies and to set the agenda for social debate.

【講座】泰國政治的未來：右翼浪潮下的進步群眾政黨？

時間： 3 月 23 日 ，19:00
地點： Daybreak 破曉咖啡（台北市萬華區艋舺大道110號）
講者： Suphalak Bumroongkit

泰國今年2月眾議院大選前，政治分析家、民調及社群媒體上普遍預測「人民黨」（People's Party）將贏得第一大黨。然而，選舉結果卻讓專家們跌破眼鏡：「泰自豪黨」（Bhumjaithai Party）贏得大選，席次幾乎成長三倍。就連泰自豪黨黨魁阿努廷（Anutin Charnvirakul）也承認，結果遠超預期。相比之下，民主派政黨——人民黨與為泰黨（Pheu Thai）——則流失了大量席次。這個結果徵顯了泰國社會的什麼狀況？
選後，部分專家認為泰自豪黨可能再執政十年。該黨鞏固了各精英集團與地方大老的勢力，利用各種力量確保選戰勝利，阻止人民黨崛起推行結構性改革，讓既得利益精英維持現狀。民主陣營該如何反擊這種保守勢力的合縱連橫？
對於人民黨而言，它曾連續兩屆崛起成為領先的進步政黨，但究竟是什麼原因導致了這次慘敗？黨內認為戰敗的真正原因為何？在各方廣泛的批評聲浪中，人民黨將如何調整以應對下次大選？在未來四年的任期內，必須完成哪些任務？
即便認清了殘酷的現實，也不表示人民黨能輕易走上一條邁向如願以償的道路。在全球政治右轉下，面對精英集團掌控國家機器來施展「法律戰」，人民黨得在一連串的兩難中做出選擇。該像傳統政黨那樣，專注經營人脈網絡、服務選民並協調農村地方事務嗎？還是應堅持以政策綱領為核心進行宣傳？如何在意識形態光譜上，錨定黨的位置？是採取更左翼的姿態與既有結構對抗，還是在執行政策時轉向較右翼的角度，表現得更務實、技術取向且關注財政？重重挑戰下，人民黨能夠實現「建立福利國家」這個核心使命嗎？
最後，針對44位人民黨眾議員曾提案修正《刑法》第122條「冒犯君主罪」，是否構成「嚴重違反道德準則」、破壞君主立憲，泰國最高法院即將做出裁決。裁決結果很可能解除人民黨領導層的議員職務並禁止他們從政，甚至第三次解散政黨。當黨內人才一再被清洗且難以重建時，人民黨該如何前行？

講者簡介

Suphalak Bumroongkit （Sek）是泰國清邁大學經濟學系的研究員及講師，專長勞動與福利政策。目前，他正為「台灣跨國企業監察網絡」（ TTNC Watch ）執行一項有關「企業與人權」（Business and Human Rights，BHR）的研究，調查在泰國營運的台灣企業。2024年，Sek為美國勞工部執行一項計畫，研究印太區域電子業供應鏈中工人的勞動權益。除了從事研究工作，Sek還是「泰北勞工網絡」（Thailand Northern Labor Network）秘書長，該組織是由勞工與民間團體組成的聯盟，關注泰國北部的勞工權利、移工權益、福利與女性議題。另外，他也曾出任泰國眾議院關於勞工、福利及中小企業事務的多個委員會委員。
在 2026 年泰國眾議院選舉中，Sek 代表人民黨參選不分區議員（排名第 66 位）。儘管這個排名很難當選，但 Sek 仍投入選戰，因為他希望將福利國家、勞工權利與社會安全網這些左翼議題推入泰國社會。在泰國，左翼運動已從主流視野中消失許久。Sek期盼利用政治空間倡導左翼政策，並設定社會辯論的焦點。
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- **city**: Taipei
- **state**: TP
- **country**: Taiwan
- **location**: 台北市萬華區艋舺大道110號1樓, Taipei, Taiwan 108028
- **lat**: 25.03316
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  - **A:** [Talk] The Future of Thai Politics: Building a Progressive Mass Party Amid a Rising Right-Wing Tide takes place on Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm at 台北市萬華區艋舺大道110號1樓, Taipei, Taiwan 108028, Taiwan.
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