Mr Thaksin said he was ready to face justice after spending the past 15 years outside the kingdom to avoid corruption charges he long maintained were politically motivated.
Thailand's billionaire former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Tuesday he wants to return from self-exile before his July 26 birthday, in a tweet he posted just days before a general election.
The opposition Pheu Thai party, fronted by Mr Thaksin's daughter Paetongtarn, is ahead in most opinion polls for Sunday's vote, increasing speculation that he may finally make good on repeated promises to return to Thailand. Mr Thaksin is still idolised by millions of poor rural Thais who benefited from his welfare policies, but loathed by the kingdom's royalist-military elite.
Mr Thaksin was convicted in absentia on corruption charges — and faces numerous other cases as well — but on Tuesday said he was ready to face the courts.
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