By Thai Newsroom Reporters
WHETHER AND WHEN deposed prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra might eventually return home from self-exile abroad without being subsequently thrown into jail would only depend on her own brother/de facto Pheu Thai boss-cum-convict on parole Thaksin Shinawatra and nobody else.
Former Democrat MP Thepthai Senapong today (Apr. 15) posted on his Facebook page to conclude Yingluck who has fled the country since the last seven years would almost certainly await the planned homecoming following in the footsteps of her politically powerful brother who has recently implied she would eventually come back some time later this year.
It remains to be seen how the de facto Pheu Thai boss would manipulate his sister’s planned homecoming in the face of earlier-delivered court sentences against her which, he said, were not as complicated as his.
Thaksin recently told reporters that his sister might probably attend next year’s Songkran festival in Chiang Mai as their northern home province.
According to Thepthai, the de facto Pheu Thai boss would finally find ways and means for Yingluck who had been sentenced in absentia to five years in jail on duty-negligence charges pertaining to her previous Pheu Thai government’s rice subsidy project to return home without spending a single day behind bars since his own jail sentence already set a contentious precedent which obviously flaunted the country’s judicial procedures.
Though Thaksin had been earlier sentenced in absentia to eight years in jail due to a few counts of court-verdicted misconduct during his previous premiership and had his jail sentence curtailed by royal pardon to one year, he had allegedly managed to use legal loopholes with the excuses of being over 70 years old and suffering from “critical illnesses” to keep himself from being literally put behind bars.
It remains to be seen how the de facto Pheu Thai boss would help out his sister who would not fit in such categories as his so she could otherwise be literally spared time in prison despite her five-year jail sentence earlier delivered by court.
Thepthai said Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and the Pheu Thai-led government could practically not do anything other than provide convenience for Yingluck’s planned homecoming yet to be steered by Thaksin.
The Pheu Thai-backed prime minister who had been allegedly quietly promoted to the elected premiership by the woman predecessor dare not directly give her a helping hand for fear of allegations of power abuse.
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Top and Front Page: Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra enjoying Songkran festival at a Thai restaurant in London. Photos: Thai Rath
Insert: De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra,right, and former Democrat MP Thepthai Senapon, left. Photo: Thai Rath
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