By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DEPOSED PRIME MINISTER-cum-convict at large Yingluck Shinawatra would probably return home as soon as after Songkran festival next month and be probably given a curtailed, one-year jail sentence upon her anticipated homecoming, according to a former Red Shirt leader.
Former MP/Red Shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan has posted on his Facebook page to forecast Yingluck would likely follow in the footsteps of her brother/de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra who had allegedly manipulated to keep himself from being literally put behind bars for a single day.
Yingluck who had been sentenced to five years in prison for convicted misconduct pertaining to a previous Pheu Thai government’s rice subsidy project would probably return from seven years of self-exile abroad after Songkran festival next month with the probability of being individually granted royal pardon to curtail her five-year jail term to only one year, Jatuporn commented.
Then, the ex-Red Shirt leader pointed out, Yingluck’s one-year sentence would probably be finally waived by another royal pardon to be granted in the upcoming July on occasion of His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s birth anniversary.
Jatuporn stopped short of saying how Yingluck would practically spend a few months’ period between April and July preferably outside of a prison, compared to the phenomenon in which the politically powerful de facto Pheu Thai boss had enjoyed the contentious privileges of a private ward at Police Hospital to spend a six-month period tantamount to half of his curtailed, one-year sentence in lieu of Bangkok Remand Prison.
But if the former woman prime minister returned after August 22 – the date on which her brother will have finished his one-year, off-prison sentence, she would probably not be entitled to the sought-after royal pardon, Jatuporn said.
He repeatedly said Yingluck’s planned homecoming is merely part of a secret deal which Thaksin had allegedly made 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.
Whether or not Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, quietly pushed to elected premiership by Yingluck, would be pressed to step down under the de facto Pheu Thai boss’s secret deal remains to be seen in the next few months, according to the ex-Red Shirt leader.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Commerce Minister Phumtham Wechayachai, largely known as Thaksin’s right-hand man, said today his boss has merely intended to visit his relatives and pay homage to his forebears in his home province of Chiang Mai without a political complication.
Thaksin’s northern home province had been earlier seen as a major Pheu Thai stronghold but not anymore since last year’s election in which his camp grabbed only two out of a total 10 MP seats.
The Probation Department would likely give him permission to temporarily relocate himself from the capital to the northern province where he may feel physically and mentally relieved, according to the agency’s deputy director-general Montri Bunyayothin.
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Top and Front Page: Deposed prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra with her brother de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra. Both photos: Thai Rath
Insert: Former MP/ Red Shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan. Photo: Naewna
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