BANGKOK: Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to return to the kingdom on Tuesday (Aug 22), the same day as a key parliamentary vote could end a political deadlock, his daughter said. The 74-year-old billionaire was ousted in a 2006 military coup and has spent 15 years in self-exile.
"I don't want to offend people. I want everyone to love each other. I want the country to be peaceful," he told BBC Thai Saturday.His return will coincide with an afternoon vote on whether to approve Srettha Thavisin - from the Thaksin-linked Pheu Thai Party - as prime minister and end months of political uncertainty since a May general election.
The progressive Move Forward Party won the most parliamentary seats in the election but the senate blocked its leader from becoming prime minister, after being spooked by a controversial policy to reform the kingdom's harsh royal insult laws.While he's long been a divisive figure, political analysts don't expect Thaksin's presence to kick off protests."I think Thai people have moved on from Thaksin," Verapat Pariyawong, a political analyst, told AFP.
Thaksin has lived in self-exile, mostly in Dubai, since 2008 and regularly addresses supporters on the Clubhouse social media platform using the alias Tony Woodsome. His sentences for the other three total 10 years in prison, while he is still under investigation in another case, and in his May message he said he was ready to face justice.Thaksin previously slated an Aug 10 return to Bangkok but postponed citing a medical appointment.
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