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🔴 Shinawatra Dynasty Faces Collapse Over Leaked Call
🔸 PM Paetongtarn under pressure after leaked call blaming army for border crisis with Cambodia.
🔸 Coalition partner Bhumjaithai quit gov’t on June 18; another exit may end majority.
🔸 The family has dominated polls since 2001, but faced repeated coups.
#Thailand #Shinawatra #Paetongtarn #Cambodia #Military #Crisis
Painful memories
"Yingluck #Shinawatra, made #ricepledging an #electoral #policy flagship.. promised #farmers govt wld make #rice prices 50% above #market prices. #NACC were alarmed.. certain such a policy wld lead to massive #corruption & econ disaster.. NACC voiced its concerns immediately & after Yingluck became PM.. warning was ignored.. By 1st harvest 2012, signs of corruption were palpable.. govt did nothing.. #Yingluck.. chose to trust e creator of #recklessscheme"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3037130/painful-rice-pledging-memories
🇹🇭🧐Corruption still a problem
"how hv grey businesses involving #Chinese #mafia gangs been made possible? Only bec certain #state #authorities hv turned a #blindeye. When it comes to corruption, there's no significant difference btw #civilian #administrations & #military #regimes.. It shld be noted tt #Thais first learned of the term #policy-oriented #corruption shortly after #Thaksin #Shinawatra took office in 2000. Extreme #populism is a trademark of e Shinawatra family"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2961370/corruption-still-a-problem
#Thai #antigraft body probes #Thaksin’s previous stay in #hospital instead of #jail
" #Thailand’s #National #AntiCorruption Commission (NACC) on Dec 16 resolved to investigate 12 #government #officials for allegedly allowing former prime minister Thaksin #Shinawatra to stay in a hospital instead of jail.. NACC found enough #facts, #witnesses and #evidence to conduct the #investigation and thus resolved to proceed with the case and investigate the 12 officials"
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thai-anti-graft-body-launches-probe-into-thaksins-hospitalisation-after-2023-return
#Thailand: “The #ElectionCommission (EC) will launch an investigation into the ruling #PheuThai Party that could lead to its #dissolution… The EC has set up a committee to investigate complaints against the party that alleged it allowed former [PM]…#Thaksin #Shinawatra to influence…party activities... The probe into Pheu Thai comes months after the [#ConstitutionalCourt dissolved the opposition] #MoveForward Party…following an [EC] investigation...” | BangkokPost https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2886253/thailands-election-commission-begins-probe-into-ruling-pheu-thai-party-according-to-media-report #ICCPR25
‘Back to square one’? #Thailand confronts ghosts of its past with Shinawatra restoration. “After…coups, countless deaths in political violence, court rulings & 20 years lost to #instability – all just to see a #Shinawatra returned to power yet again – many pro-democracy leaders now warn that Thailand appears to be booking in for some bleak times ahead.” | Aidan Jones, South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3275669/back-square-one-thailand-confronts-ghosts-its-past-shinawatra-restoration
«Démocratie à la thaïlandaise»: opposition dissoute et retour des #Shinawatra
✏️ | En accès libre › https://blogs.mediapart.fr/laure-siegel/blog/200824/democratie-la-thailandaise-opposition-dissoute-et-retour-des-shinawatra?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapartblogs
«Démocratie à la thaïlandaise»: opposition dissoute et retour des #Shinawatra
✏️ | En accès libre › https://blogs.mediapart.fr/laure-siegel/blog/200824/democratie-la-thailandaise-opposition-dissoute-et-retour-des-shinawatra?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapartblogs
#Thailand: #Paetongtarn Shinawatra: Thai heiress brings back divisive dynasty. But for how long? “All four of the last #Shinawatra-led governments were ousted before the end of their elected terms by constitutional court rulings or military coups. Ms Paetongtarn will be hoping to break that dismal record, but given the unending turmoil in Thai politics the odds do not look good.” | Analysis by Jonathan Head, BBC News https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg79259ln81o.amp
#Thaksin gets royal #pardon, parole ends Sunday. “The news comes a day after Thaksin’s daughter #Paetongtarn, 37, became the youngest person ever elected prime minister of #Thailand. She is also the third member of the #Shinawatra family to hold the position. | Bangkok Post https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2848833/thaksin-gets-royal-pardon-parole-ends-sunday
Pheu Thai Party's leader Paetongtarn #Shinawatra reacts after the Thai parliament confirmed her as the country's next prime minister, in Bangkok, #Thailand. REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
#Thailandia
Primo Ministro Shrettha #Thavisin (#PTP|Centro-destra populista): “All’ex Primo Ministro Thaksin #Shinawatra è stata concessa la libertà condizionale, ora è ufficiale. Ciò è stato fatto in conformità con i regolamenti del Dipartimento di Correzione. Thaksin è stato un Primo Ministro che ha portato benefici al Paese per molto tempo.
Una volta rilasciato, sarà solo un normale cittadino. Ciò che è passato è passato. Tutto è andato secondo la legge.“
Thaïlande :
L'ancien Premier ministre thaïlandais emprisonné Thaksin #Shinawatra sera bientôt libéré après l'approbation de sa libération conditionnelle, selon le ministre thaïlandais de la Justice, six mois seulement après son retour dramatique dans le royaume.
Tout au long de son mandat, Thaksin a été extrêmement populaire auprès de la classe ouvrière et rurale thaïlandaise, mais sa politique était un anathème pour les riches élites et les conservateurs qui l'accusaient d'être un populiste
#Rice policies caught in controversy & politicization
" #Ricesubsidy has always been controversial and it peaked during the Yingluck #Shinawatra #government .. Yingluck’s then #commerce minister was given a long #jail term for #corruption in the rice pledging scheme, while Yingluck was also #convicted and given a jail sentence for dereliction of duty in preventing corruption in the scheme. Yingluck fled the country shortly before the verdict and has lived in exile abroad"
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/rice-policies-caught-in-controversy-and-politicization/
"The thumbs-down by NACC & Council of State bodes ill not only for this scheme but for the Pheu Thai-led coalition. By turn'g a deaf ear to such criticism, the govt may face e same fate as former Yingluck #Shinawatra govt tt dismissed criticisms against its rice-pledging scheme which was riddled w irregularities. Yingluck was slapped w a 5yr jail term for allow'g widespread #corruption & fled #Thailand 2014 while ex-commerce minister Boonsong & others r still serv'g time"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2726740/a-digital-disaster
#BBCNews - #Thaksin #Shinawatra : Divisive ex-PM returns to #Thailand after 15 years
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-66577725
#ThaiPBS #ThepchaiYong
"Thaksin #Shinawatra wants his planned return to #Thailand to be seen as a family affair. But few are fooled by his latest political act .. it seems that whatever the consequence #PheuThai will face is secondary to Thaksin’s desire to come home. “The need of the real owner of the party has to come first. One who foots the bill often has the final say”"
Why did it take so long for PT supporters to figure out that it is #พรรคเพื่อตนเอง NOT พรรคเพื่อไทย !
https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thaksins-pending-return-signals-done-deal/
#Thailand former Prime Minister Thaksin #Shinawatra, deposed in a military coup in 2006, and in self exile for 15 years, will return on August 10, according to his daughter Paetongtarn https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/26/ex-pm-thaksin-shinawatra-will-return-to-thailand-next-month-daughter-says
