Ousted former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra sits in her car as she leaves Parliament after delivering her statement to the National Legislative Assembly meeting in Bangkok January 9, 2015. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's army-stacked parliament will vote in an impeachment hearing against ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday, testing a fragile calm between the rural poor and the royalist establishment backed by the Bangkok middle class.
A guilty verdict on the charge of dereliction of duty could see Yingluck, who was removed from office for abuse of power in May days before a military coup, banned from politics for five years.
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