Ex-PM Thaksin tweets ahead of polls about returning to Thailand


BANGKOK (Bloomberg): Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted as Thailand’s prime minister in 2006 and has lived in self-imposed exile for well more than a decade following a corruption conviction, said he planned to return to the South-East Asian nation in July.

"I’ve decided to go home to raise my grandchildren within July, before my birthday,” Thaksin, who will turn 74 on July 26, said in a tweet on Tuesday (May 9), his second this month on the controversial subject of returning home.

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