By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra will certainly attend a partisan workshop in Hua Hin next month, confirmed Pheu Thai Secretary-General Sorawong Thienthong today (Nov. 15).
Given his being a former prime minister with business and administrative experience, the de facto Pheu Thai boss will join the partisan seminar as an “invited expert” at a hotel in the beach resort city during Dec. 13 and Dec. 14, according to the Pheu Thai secretary-general.
Though Thaksin has been permanently banned by court from assuming political positions at any levels, he has recently delivered sensational campaign speeches in support of a Pheu Thai candidate running for Nayok Or Bor Jor or head of the provincial administration in Udon Thani.
The billionaire power player has been invariably alleged by critics of domineering and steering the Pheu Thai rank and file headed by his daughter-turned-Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra since he returned home from self-exile abroad last year.
Lawsuits have already been filed against Thaksin by lawyers and political activists to “independent” agencies ranging from the Election Commission and the National Anti-Corruption Commission to the Constitutional Court in pursuit of legal penalties for his allegedly tampering with internal affairs of the Pheu Thai and all coalition partners.
Thaksin had allegedly exerted unlawful influence over the Pheu Thai-led government to the extent that he hosted a hush-hush meeting of prominent figures of those coalition partners at his Chan Song Lah house hours after former prime minister Srettha Thavisin had been deposed of power by the Constitutional Court last August.
During last year’s privileged, yet contentious stay in a private ward of Police Hospital, the de facto Pheu Thai boss had played a pivotal part in the power play by manipulating to dump the court-dissolved Move Forward from an original, post-election alliance of parties, set up the Pheu Thai-led coalition government, allocated cabinet portfolios among coalition partners, picked Pheu Thai members for ministerial seats and named the real estate mogul Srettha, personally associated with his sister/fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, as head of government.
The billionaire power player had allegedly manipulated things behind the scenes with the use of his right-hand man/Pheu Thai wheeler-dealer Phumtham Wechayachai who was then named deputy prime minister-cum-commerce minister and now deputy prime minister-cum-defence minister.
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De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra in Udon Thani. Photos: Thai Rath
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