FORMER Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat said today (Dec. 8) that it is unlikely fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra will return home under a similar model her brother/de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra used to do so, Naewna newspaper said.
Pita, who is currently adviser to Progressive Movement’s chairman Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and People Party’s campaign assistant, added that Yingluck’s case differs from that of Thaksin and if everything is done straightforwardly and fairly to all parties people would regain their faith in the political system.
Yingluck had been earlier found guilty of duty negligence charges for mishandling the rice subsidy programme and sentenced by court to five-year imprisonment.
However being 57 years old she could not be deemed too old to be literally put behind bars like her 75-year-old brother who had allegedly staged a fake-out to be contentiously entitled to a six-month privileged stay at Police Hospital in lieu of Bangkok Remand prison last year.
Asked whether the recent release on parole of former Pheu Thai commerce minister-turned-convict Boonsong Teriyabhirom, his deputy Poom Sarapol and Apichart Jansakulporn, better known as Sia Peng, after being jailed over the rice subsidy programme could pave the way for Yingluck’s return to Thailand, Pita replied that he does not believe the two issues are linked.
He hopes that Yingluck will enter the justice process to prove all the facts as to whether or not she was involved in causing damage to the state because if she does so she would undoubtedly receive justice.
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Top and Front Page: Pita Limjaroenrath, right, and Yingluck Shinawatra, left. Both photos by Thai Rath and merged by Thai Newsroom
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