Just two days after giving birth to her second child, Paetongtarn Shinawatra fronted a news conference in Bangkok hospital with her baby boy in an incubator.
, which has been enforced since the most recent coup in unprecedented volumes with hundreds jailed for insulting the monarchy.
It is anything but a fait accompli that the military-backed and royalist parties that comprise the governing coalition will be sidelined in any case.There has been a splintering of the ruling camp with Prayut forming the new United Thai Nation Party, pitting him against his former Palang Pracharath party and its new leader, Deputy Prime Minister and fellow ex-army supremo Prawit Wongsuwon.
The potential return of Thaksin to the country after 15 years in self-imposed exile shapes as another lightning rod. “On the other hand, he’s getting old, he’s not as influential, and it’s pretty clear that the parties have moved on, even Pheu Thai to an extent.”There have been suggestions that Thaksin could serve his sentence under house arrest, but that was rejected this week by Justice Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, who insisted he must serve the time in jail.
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