NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Previous prime minister within exile Thaksin Shinawatra hopes the long birthday party thrown designed for him this year will be his last.
Thaksin on Saturday night promised to see red-shirted followers in person next year, rather than via video call from Dubai, where he has spent most of his time since fleeing the country within 2008.
“This year will be the last, ” he or she said of the birthday celebration. “See you just about all in Thailand next year. ”
His supporters cheered in response.
About 300 people of the United Front for Democracy towards Dictatorship from 20 northereastern provinces converged at a resort in Pak Thong Chai district on Sunday to celebrate their own leader’s birthday. He will turn 73 upon Tuesday.
The party was hosted by their younger brother, Payap, who handles northeastern MPs for the Pheu Thai Party, plus Anuwat Thinnaratch, the particular red-shirt leader in the area.
Thaksin said he anticipated the latest incarnation of his Thai Rak Thai party : which, like a number of its successor parties, was dissolved by the courts – to win the following general election as voters will solid their ballots to “punish” the government.
“I’m confident Pheu Thai will win, ” he or she said.
Phue Thai will be campaigning for a landslide victory in the next selection to end the power of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and the Palang Pracharath Party.
At the start from the censure debate on Tuesday, Gen Prayut challenged Pheu Thailänder to bring Thaksin house, although he did not mention him by name.
Thaksin countered – under the name of Tony a2z Woodsomein the TREATMENT Facebook account : “I will definitely return. I will. ”
Thaksin has been sentenced in absentia to two years within jail for mistreatment of power with the Supreme Court’s Felony Division for Cases of Political Opportunities in 2008. This individual was also convicted within multiple other cases.