His youngest daughter, Ms Paetongtarn Shinawatra, is one of the Pheu Thai party’s three prime ministerial candidates. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGKOK - Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted as Thailand’s prime minister in 2006 and has lived in self-imposed exile for well more than a decade following a corruption conviction, said he planned to return to the South-east Asian nation before his 74th birthday in July.
His youngest daughter, Ms Paetongtarn Shinawatra, is one of the party’s three prime ministerial candidates and also one of the front runners to wrest the premiership from incumbent Prayut Chan-o-cha, a former army chief who toppled Ms Yingluck’s government in 2014.in the midst of an election campaign that has seen Pheu Thai amass a solid lead in some opinion polls against former generals seeking to extend nearly a decade of army-backed rule.
Political parties affiliated with Mr Thaksin have won the most seats in every national vote dating back to 2001, only to be unseated from power by dissolutions or coups.
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