BANGKOK, July 25 – Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday reunited with her brother Thaksin, a former premier currently living in self-exile in Paris.
Yingluck departed Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport early Thursday to begin a 20-day vacation in Europe endorsed by the military junta, Xinhua news agency reports quoting local media.
A picture showing Yingluck purportedly hugging Thaksin at an airport in Paris was posted on Instagram by the latter’s son on Thursday afternoon, the Bangkok Post reported.
Yingluck started her vacation amid speculation she may not return to fight a court case in which she was alleged of negligence of duty in overseeing a controversial rice-pledging scheme.
If found guilty, she could face imprisonment and a five-year ban from politics. Yingluck is expected to attend Thaksin’s 65th birthday celebration in France
on July 26. Thaksin was ousted in a 2006 military coup and fled Thailand in 2008 to avoid a two-year jail term.
-BERNAMA
