By Thai Newsroom Reporters
FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS of her brother/de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra, deposed prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra would probably return home from self-exile abroad and would literally be kept far from jail upon her planned homecoming, according to a former lawmaker.
Ex-Democrat MP Thepthai Senapong posted on his Facebook page today (Mar. 5) to forecast Yingluck’s planned homecoming would probably occur after the upcoming August 22 – the date on which her brother will have finished his curtailed, one-year sentence for a few counts of court-convicted misconduct.
Given parole after spending a six-month period at a Bangkok hospital for undisclosed “illnesses” since that date last year, Thaksin has returned to his Chan Song Lah residence. The de facto Pheu Thai boss had not spent a single day behind bars and instead been provided privileges of a private ward at Police Hospital where he had allegedly literally taken part in power play over the setup of a Pheu Thai-led government and allocation of cabinet portfolios among coalition partners.
Thepthai said Yingluck who had allegedly quietly pushed for last year’s successful naming of real estate tycoon Srettha Thavisin as head of a post-election government would probably wait until after that date in August so her brother would manipulate to bring her back home as had been the case of his own.
Yingluck had been sentenced in absentia to five years in prison for convicted misconduct pertaining to a previous Pheu Thai government’s rice subsidy scandal.
It remains to be seen by what ways and means Thaksin would manage to bring his sister back home after seven years of self-exile overseas whilst the de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole himself had enjoyed legal loopholes to stay far from a prison by virtue of being over 70 years old and having the mystery-shrouded “illnesses” over which he had been accused of feigning it all.
The 56-year-old former woman prime minister will not meet the old-age category to otherwise deserve the legal leniency which her brother had enjoyed. Neither has she been known to suffer any critical illness as contentiously claimed by the de facto Pheu Thai boss.
Thaksin had allegedly struck a secret deal with the powers-that-be, referring in part to de facto Ruam Thai Sang Chart boss/former coup leader-turned-prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to the extent that he be practically allowed to return home safely with a substantial reduction in his eight-year jail term via royal pardon and without his being literally put behind bars and the Pheu Thai being overwhelmingly endorsed as core of the coalition government on condition that they definitely do without the Move Forward.
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Ex-Democrat MP Thepthai Senapong, left, and former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, right in above, and also right in Front Page photo with her brother de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Both pictures: Thai Rath
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