Exiled former PM Yingluck to return to Thailand, undergo legal process


Yingluck Shinawatra reportedly fled Thailand after being tried for dereliction of duty over a rice subsidy scheme in 2016. PHOTO: ST FILE

BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): Exiled former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra will return to the country and undergo legal sentencing in accordance with the corrections system without seeking any special privileges, according to Worachai Hema, a former Pheu Thai Party MP from central Thailand’s Samut Prakan province.

Worachai, a member of Deputy Prime Minister Phumtham Wechayachai’s advisory team, was commenting on former PM Thaksin Shinawatra’s recent interview to foreign media about his sister Yingluck’s return to Thailand before the Songkran Festival in April 2025.

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