The 74-year-old tycoon, twice elected prime minister but ousted in a military coup in 2006, has long said he desired to return home but faces multiple criminal charges that he says are politically motivated.
“I can’t believe what I’m about to write. “Dad is coming back to Don Meung Airport on August 10,” his daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra wrote on her official Facebook page on Wednesday – Thaksin’s birthday.
Paetongtarn was the prime ministerial candidate for the Pheu Thai party, which got here second within the elections, and is now attempting to form a government after blocking the Forward Movement Party.
“My heart and everybody in our family feel overwhelmed, glad and apprehensive, but we respect dad’s decision,” she wrote.
Confirm Pita as Prime Minister or “get out,” protesters in Bangkok tell Thai senators
Confirm Pita as Prime Minister or “get out,” protesters in Bangkok tell Thai senators
Thaksin was convicted in absentia of corruption in 2008 and has faced quite a few other cases since then, but in May he said he was able to stand trial.
Thaksin-linked parties have dominated Thai politics since 2001, but have lost two prime ministers to military coups and one to a court ruling.
