By Thai Newsroom Reporters
DE FACTO BHUMJAITHAI boss Newin Chidchob held private talks with de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra at the latter’s house yesterday, partisan sources said today (Oct. 7).
Accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul who concurrently acts as leader of the second largest ruling party, the de facto Bhumjaithai boss visited the billionaire power player and father of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra at his Chan Song Lah residence on the Thonburi side of the capital to discuss in camera topics believed to be primarily political.
Anutin declined to shed some light on yesterday’s rare phenomenon at Thaksin’s house when he was approached by reporters at Government House today.
However, one of the topics for the tete-a-tete talks between both of the de facto partisan bosses would be more or less related to speculation that Thaksin might probably encounter another legal battle which might not only throw him in jail but cause dissolution of his largest ruling party on grounds of his having unlawfully, pivotally engaged in power play behind the scenes, the partisan sources said.
Without elaborating, Palang Pracharath Secretary-General Paiboon Nititawan has earlier said a fresh round of anti-Thaksin moves will be unveiled to the public as soon as the upcoming Thursday.
The de facto Pheu Thai boss has been invariably accused of manipulating to influence and steer his party’s executive board where his daughter concurrently acts as leader.
Last August, Thaksin hosted an urgent meeting of the leaders of all coalition partners at his house hours after former prime minister Srettha Thavisin had been impeached and deposed of his power by the Constitutional Court.
The billionaire power player had allegedly managed to take a decisive part in the power play since he was contentiously granted the double-standard privileges of being literally spared a curtailed, one-year jail sentence and staying in a private ward of Police Hospital in lieu of a Bangkok prison for a six-month period until he was released on parole earlier this year following last year’s homecoming from 17 years of self-exile abroad.
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Above and Front Page: De facto Bhumjaithai boss Newin Chidchob with an image of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra inset. Photo: Sanook.com
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