Bangkok: Thailand’s ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has rubbished allegations by the opposition party that a key goal of the constitutional amendments underway was to facilitate his return home from exile. Shinawatra has said that he can return home from his self imposed exile on his own steam, and did not need the country’s constitution to be rewritten.
“I have my own way of getting back home without having to rewrite the charter to favour me,” Thaksin said.
The opposition Democrat Party and other anti-Thaksin groups had alleged that a key goal of the charter change process, now underway, was to change the status of the monarchy and also to bring Thaksin home without having to serve his two year jail term.
“For me, getting back home or not is not my main concern. I am happy enough living abroad,” Thaksin was quoted as saying by the Bangkok Post from Dubai, where he lives in self-exile since fleeing a 2008 conviction for abuse of authority. Thaksins sister Yingluck Shinawatra became prime minister last year. Her government last month pushed through parliament legislation to establish a panel to rewrite the 2007 constitution, drafted by backers of the coup that toppled Thaksin. (PTI)
