Thaksin made his homecoming on Tuesday and was escorted to jail in dramatic scenes that stole the spotlight from political ally Srettha Thavisin, who was elected prime minister in a parliamentary vote later in the day.
Thailand's new prime minister vowed to bring four years of change to the kingdom as he took office Wednesday at the head of a controversial coalition including pro-military parties linked to former coup-makers.This opened the way for election runners-up Pheu Thai to build a coalition that includes Prayut's party and another linked to the generals who ousted Thaksin in 2006 and his sister Yingluck in 2014.
Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire and former prime minister of Thailand, finally returned to his home country on Tuesday, after more than a decade of living overseas in self-exile.
Thaksin Shinawatra, the ousted fugitive former prime minister of Thailand, returned to the country Tuesday for the first time after more than 15 years in self-exile, reintroducing a towering and divisive figure at a time when the kingdom’s often fraught political scene is in a fresh state of flux.