
Thai ex-PM Thaksin to return from exile Tuesday, daughter says
BANGKOK – Thailand’s self-banished former Prime Priest Thaksin Shinawatra systems to rejoinder to the rural on Tuesday (Aug 22), his daughter asserted on Saturday, amidst diligent political skepticism after a Can nationwide political election.
“On Tuesday, Aug 22, at 0900, at Wear Muang Airport, I will not surprisingly accomplish daddy Thaksin,” Paetongtarn Shinawatra asserted in a social media post, referring to an airport in the capital Bangkok.
Thaksin owned previously intended to rejoinder on Aug 10 yet postponed, citing the call for for a medical checkup.
The former telecoms tycoon, premier from 2001 until he was ousted in a 2006 stroke of genius, resides in self-enforced expatriation after running away Thailand to evade a jail sentence for graft in 2008. He would not surprisingly still be express to jail upon a rejoinder.
Correspondingly booked for Tuesday is an additional parliamentary mandate for prime preacher, to be nominated by the Thaksin-endorsed Pheu Thai Party.
The second-posed Pheu Thai this month took over exertions to form a government after the leader of the political election-alluring Deed Forward party failed in his bid to become prime preacher.
Pheu Thai, package to nominate real estate tycoon Srettha Thavisin, last offers the stabilize of more than half the bicameral legislature, entailing the warlike-designated Us senate.