By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul confirmed today (May 11) he is looking forward to paying a personal visit to de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra who has been literally put behind bars for eight months and now released on parole.
Anutin declined to tell how soon he will personally visit the de facto Pheu Thai boss probably at the latter’s Chan Song Lah residence on the Thonburi side of the capital and insisted that his planned visit to his predecessor be viewed as a willing and personal activity.
The prime minister who concurrently acts as leader of the Bhumjaithai, core of the current coalition government, stopped short of saying what specific topic he may raise for talk with his predecessor during his planned, personal visit.
De facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob, literally known behind the scenes as “manager of government”, had previously worked for the de facto Pheu Thai boss over the last few decades.
“We’re delighted at the latest event in which he has been freed to spend private time with his family. It’s not unusual for one to visit a well-acquainted and respected person,” Anutin said with the use of “we” to apparently refer to himself and without mentioning Thaksin by name.
The de facto Pheu Thai boss who has literally spent two thirds of his one-year term at Klong Prem prison and was today released on parole with an EM ankle bracelet had been earlier ordered by court to return to the prison after he had evidently taken legal loopholes to flout his jail term and to stay in a privileged ward at Police Hospital for a six-month period after he had returned from 17 years of self-exile overseas in 2023.
The globetrotting Thaksin had been originally convicted in absentia as guilty of perpetrating a few counts of misconduct during his previous premiership over the last couple of decades and originally sentenced to eight years in jail which had been curtailed under royal pardon to only one year.
Thaksin had given abrasive responses to his critics and made disputable comments on varied political and economic issues nearly on a daily basis between the period after he had been discharged from the hospital and before he had been returned to jail.
His daughter/court-deposed prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has earlier told reporters that her father would rather choose to keep his hands off of political circles after he has been freed this time, however.
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Top and Front Page – Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, right, and de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, left. Photo – Amarin TV
Insert – De facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra greeting well-wishers upon his release on parole this morning, May 11, 2026. Photo – PPTVHD36
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