Thaksin’s Friends Are in Power

On Friday, lawmakers will likely elect PPP leader Samak Sundaravej as the country’s third prime minister in three years
Thaksin Shinawatra has proven to be hard guy to get rid of. The generals who thought they had ended Thaksin’s populist grip on Thailand with a coup in September 2006 couldn’t do much more except look on as the exiled former premier’s al…
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