Thai ex-PM Thaksin leaves country amid turmoil
Police, Thailand’s influential former prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra’nın out of the country and the next Prime Minister the day before the parliamentary vote and in front of a court decision that could open it to a new prison sentence.
The separation of the billionaire Thaksin, who spent a total of 15 years in exile imposed, is faced with a large challenge from a rival party before the vote on Friday.
On Tuesday, next week, the Supreme Court will decide that Thaksin potentially a case that could give a prison time, and this avoided his return to Thailand in 2023 on medical reasons.
Police said in a statement, Thaksin, the authorities to leave the country after confirming that there was no court order at 19.17 at 19.17 at 19.17’un Don Mueang Airport at 19.17 at a special jet flew with a special jet.
The police said it was T7GTS, which was initially flying towards Singapore, but later traveled via Malaysia and made a series of loops in the Sea of Andaman before going to the west than online flight viewers.
Thaksin’s lawyer Winyat Chatmontree said Reuters was not aware of that Thaksin had left the country, but that the former Prime Minister would go to court next week.
He refused to comment on a Pheu Thai spokesman Thaksin’s movements.
The 76 -year -old Thacsin, the last week, before his dismissal by a court for just a year, the recent rejected prime minister Paetongarn Shinawatra’nın father of the challenging ruling Pheu Thai Party behind the driving force.
Paetongarn was a billionaire Shinawatra family or the sixth supported prime minister who would be abolished by the army or the judiciary in a two -year power war between the country’s fighting elite.
The polarizing billionaire lived in London and Dubai to avoid imprisonment to abuse of power and interest conflicts before returning to Thailand to serve the sentence hours before a Pheu Thai Prime Minister began to work.
Thaksin’s duration passed from the royal amnesty to one year from eight years, and in February 2024, he spent six months on the VIP wing of the hospital before his release of conditional release.
On Tuesday, the decision of the Court of Cassation shall decide whether the time he spent in the hospital is accepted as a service or whether he will go to jail to serve his sentence.
Pheu Thai has been fighting to get support since he was subjected to Paetongarn’s loss, and he triggers a struggle to defeat the party that has been dominating the Tay politics for 25 years and wins five of the last six elections.
Early on Thursday, Pheu Thai said that Chaikasem Nitisiri, a senior lawyer with a limited cabinet experience, would go to the head of Bhumjaithai leader Anutin Charnvirakul for the vote.
