Controversial former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is expected back home after years of exile, the billionaire's daughter, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, announced on Saturday on the online platform X, previously Twitter.
"On Tuesday , I will meet my father Thaksin at [Bangkok's] Don Muang Airport at 9am [0200 GMT]," Paetongtarn wrote.
The Thaksin-backed Pheu Thai Party is seeking power with property tycoon Srettha Thavisin as its candidate and an alliance with conservatives. In 2008, he fled the country into exile to avoid imprisonment. Even after his return, announced by his daughter, he could still be imprisoned. Whether this will actually happen remains to be seen.
The country still has no new prime minister since the parliamentary election three months ago. Pheu Thai, which came second in the election, has now taken over the formation of the government after the leader of the winning progressive Move Forward Party failed in his bid to become prime minister due to opposition from the military-appointed Senate.
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