BANGKOK: Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra met lawmakers from his Puea Thai Party in Hong Kong where he known as for party harmony forward of an drawing near normal election, party contributors mentioned on Monday.
Many are looking at to see how Puea Thai Party plays in a vote which the military executive has promised to hold in November but which may well be not on time.
Thaksin, who founded Advance Info Service Pcl, Thailand's greatest cell phone operator, was high minister from 2001 to 2006 when he was overthrown in an army coup supported through the Bangkok-based status quo.
Thaksin, who is founded in Dubai, continues to loom large over Thai politics and stays common in the northeast 'Isaan' area which, along side the north, forms the stronghold of parties aligned with Thaksin that have won every election since 2001 through appealing to poorer citizens.
His sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was elected high minister in 2011. She was overthrown in a 2014 military coup.
Yingluck fled Thailand final August, weeks sooner than the Supreme Court found her guilty of negligence in mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme and sentenced her to 5 years in jail.
Sources in the Puea Thai Party say she is lately founded in England.
Thaksin was convicted in absentia in 2006 on battle of pastime charges.
The siblings have been in Asia because the get started of the month, mentioned party contributors, and have visited China, Japan and Hong Kong sooner than travelling to Singapore on Monday.
Prayuth Siripanich, a Puea Thai Party member and its former consultant for the northeastern province of Maha Sarakham, mentioned ten lawmakers flew to Hong Kong on Saturday and returned on Monday.
"Thaksin asked lawmakers to be united and not to break that unity," Prayuth advised Reuters. "He asked that lawmakers meet their constituents because the election is fast approaching."
Piyapong Klinpan, a spokesman for the junta, or National Council for Peace and Order as it is officially recognized, advised newshounds in Bangkok that "relevant agencies", together with police, had been following Yingluck and Thaksin.
He didn't give further details.
Supporters of the Shinawatras say the circle of relatives are victims of political persecution. Their critics accuse them of fashionable corruption, which they deny.
Many are looking at to see how Puea Thai Party plays in a vote which the military executive has promised to hold in November but which may well be not on time.
Thaksin, who founded Advance Info Service Pcl, Thailand's greatest cell phone operator, was high minister from 2001 to 2006 when he was overthrown in an army coup supported through the Bangkok-based status quo.
Thaksin, who is founded in Dubai, continues to loom large over Thai politics and stays common in the northeast 'Isaan' area which, along side the north, forms the stronghold of parties aligned with Thaksin that have won every election since 2001 through appealing to poorer citizens.
His sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, was elected high minister in 2011. She was overthrown in a 2014 military coup.
Yingluck fled Thailand final August, weeks sooner than the Supreme Court found her guilty of negligence in mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme and sentenced her to 5 years in jail.
Sources in the Puea Thai Party say she is lately founded in England.
Thaksin was convicted in absentia in 2006 on battle of pastime charges.
The siblings have been in Asia because the get started of the month, mentioned party contributors, and have visited China, Japan and Hong Kong sooner than travelling to Singapore on Monday.
Prayuth Siripanich, a Puea Thai Party member and its former consultant for the northeastern province of Maha Sarakham, mentioned ten lawmakers flew to Hong Kong on Saturday and returned on Monday.
"Thaksin asked lawmakers to be united and not to break that unity," Prayuth advised Reuters. "He asked that lawmakers meet their constituents because the election is fast approaching."
Piyapong Klinpan, a spokesman for the junta, or National Council for Peace and Order as it is officially recognized, advised newshounds in Bangkok that "relevant agencies", together with police, had been following Yingluck and Thaksin.
He didn't give further details.
Supporters of the Shinawatras say the circle of relatives are victims of political persecution. Their critics accuse them of fashionable corruption, which they deny.
Thai ex-PM Thaksin calls for party unity ahead of promised election
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