BANGKOK — Thailand's fugitive former premier, Thaksin Shinawatra, returned on Tuesday (Aug 22) from 17 years in exile, a historic homecoming that coincides with a bid by his political allies to form a new government with some of its biggest rivals.
Thaksin, 74, arguably Thailand's most famous politician and the fugitive figurehead of the populist movement Pheu Thai, appeared briefly with family members at Bangkok's Don Mueang airport to greet lawmakers, smiling and waving to hundreds of ecstatic supporters, before returning to the terminal.
Thaksin fled abroad in 2008 to avoid a jail sentence for abuse of power, two years after the military toppled him alleging corruption and disloyalty to the monarchy, which he has vehemently refuted. "Congratulations to the Shinawatra family and former PM Thaksin. Returning to your place of birth with your family, there is no greater happiness," Mr Srettha posted on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
Mr Srettha, 60, on Monday said Pheu Thai had failed to secure the outright majority it had targeted in the May election, so its only chance of governing was in partnership with some rivals it had vowed not to work with. But his popularity and his support for a new wave of capitalist upstarts put him at odds with a nexus of royalists, military and old money families, triggering an intractable power struggle that is still being played out today.
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