Former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is now in Indonesia where it is hosting the APEC Summit.
A Thai Rath correspondent said that Thaksin flew from Hong Kong to Indonesia where the 21st APEC Summit is being held from October 6-8.
It was expected that the ex-premier would discuss cabinet reshuffle with his sister Prime Minister Yingluck Shinwatra who is now at the APEC Summit.
At the same time Thaksin’s son Oak Panthongtae wrote on his Facebook saying “whatever will be will be” if he was forced to enter politics.
The country’s mass circulation daily reported that it was strongly possible that the discussion would focus on reshuffling cabinet ministers who have shareholding problems and those whose terms in cabinet posts were long enough for rotation. Thaksin was also reported to hold discussion with businessmen from other Asian countries.
The reshuffle this month will become clearer after the prime minister returns from the Summit.
Meanwhile Thaksin’s lawyer Noppadol Pattama dismissed report that the ex-premier would replace candidates to run in the next general election for Pathum Thani province over a conflict with the Harnsawat family which has strong support from locals in the province.
The lawyer said he never heard of any conflict with the Harnsawat family from Thaksin.
But he admitted that the ruling Pheu Thai party was conducting popularity poll in each province to sound out support for the party, and not in Pathum Thani in particular.
If the poll showed that local people wishing a new candidate to run, then it was necessary to replace the existing ones.
He said the poll would be conducted till 2015 when the next general election would be held and then it would be assessed again whether to have replacement in which province.
He said picking a candidate to run in the election is up to the decision of the party’s executive board and not the former prime minister’s alone.
Commenting on Thaksin contemplating to field his son Panthongtae to run in the next generation, the lawyer said he neither heard from Thaksin saying he would field his son to run in the election nor anything else but learned that his son has made clear not to run.
Panthongthae or Oak posted on his Facebook yesterday saying he never was interested in politics and never liked it even a bit.
Significant, he wrote, “my father, my mother never pushing me to run in election aksin’s son went on saying that if he had a choice he wanted a full family reunion and to return justice to his father and his family.
He said that nowadays his involvement in politics was beyond the limit set by his parents and he also never thought of becoming a politician.
He said if he could choose, he would choose not to run in election, not to sit in any political post, not to be inherited with power same as other politicians passing politics to their offspring.
He said that in no circumstances that he would be forced to do anything that he would dislike, and that he was given a choice, he would choose to protect his auntie.
But if he had no choice, then “whatever will be will be”, he said.
except my working team which encouraged me to form a Cyber party to fight against all injustices. They called “Oak’s Friends” party with intention that if I received a million Likes on my Facebook the said party will then be formed.”