Ex-leader due to arrive back in the country as parliament votes on whether a new PM can take office
, who was ousted in 2014 and is also in exile, posted pictures online of Thaksin on a plane, writing: “the day I’ve been waiting for has arrived.
By Monday evening, supporters had already begun gathering at the airport, dressed in red and hanging banners that read “Welcome People’s Prime Minister” and “PM Thaksin, the PM that stays in the people’s hearts forever”. However, Thaksin was strongly opposed by the military-royalist establishment, which viewed him as corrupt, and accused him of exploiting the country for his own benefit and of seeking to upstage the monarchy.
“What were we fighting for?” said activist Sombat Boonngam-anong, one of Thaksin’s supporters who protested in his name. He claims that by joining with the military side, Pheu Thai was undermining the ideology and values that its supporters believed in. Key figures from Pheu Thai had promised during election campaigning they would not do a deal with military generals in order to take power. They now say they must do so in order to gather enough support to ensure their candidate takes office.
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