By Thai Newsroom Reporters
FORMER PRIME MINISTER YINGLUCK Shinawatra has been patiently looking to follow suit of an unprecedented homecoming style of her brother/de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large Thaksin Shinawatra, a partisan source confirmed today (Dec.27).
After nine years in self-exile overseas following the 2014 coup staged by army chief-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to oust her from elected premiership, the deposed prime minister is more or less speculated to follow suit of her brother’s homecoming as soon as early next year, following yesterday’s event in which the Supreme Court lifted a power-abusing lawsuit filed against her by the Office of the Attorney-General pertaining to a contentious transfer of the secretary-general of the National Security Council, namely Thawin Pleansri, in 2011.
The de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict at large will most certainly exert his behind-the-scenes power and look for legal loopholes to help with his sister’s homecoming effort in the style of his own, the partisan source said.
However, former deputy prime minister Wissanu Krea-ngam has earlier suggested that Yingluck return from abroad to serve her jail sentence for a period of time before royal pardon may be sooner or later granted.
Petitions for the granting of royal pardon cannot be taken into account by law until the convict has already served a period of time behind bars, according to the former deputy prime minister.
In the meantime, Thaksin, largely speculated to be released on parole by the upcoming February, would likely be transferred from Police Hospital where he has been staying for secrecy-shrouded “illnesses” for more than four months since he returned from 17 years of self-exile abroad in August to some living quarters in “house arrest” fashion.
Yingluck has been earlier occasionally seen in snapshots circulated online accompanying her globetrotting brother though she had been convicted in absentia of misconduct in office pertaining to the Pheu Thai-led government’s rice subsidy scheme over a decade ago.
The deposed woman prime minister who had allegedly quietly pushed for the naming of former real estate mogul Srettha Thavisin as a Pheu Thai-attached prime minister is “patiently waiting for the right time” to return home and be literally free from jail as had been the unprecedented case of her brother, the source said.
The Pheu Thai-backed Srettha, known as personally associated with Yingluck since both had run real estate businesses, is more or less anticipated to help her make it back home, albeit in hush-hush fashion, without being literally put behind bars, the source said.
Though Thaksin, ousted as an elected prime minister in the 2006 coup, had been earlier convicted by court of misconduct in office and sentenced in absentia to an eight-year jail term which was curtailed by royal pardon to one year, he has never been put behind bars for a single day at Bangkok Remand Prison and allegedly manipulated to be given special privileges unprovided for other convicts at Police Hospital for longer than four months now.
The de facto Pheu Thai boss had allegedly taken part in the power play over the setup of the Pheu Thai-led coalition government and allocation of cabinet portfolios among coalition partners following last May’s general election, giving out orders and advice literally from his tight-security, private ward at Police Hospital on a cellphone via Pheu Thai wheeler-dealer Phumtham Wechayachai.
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