{"id":57760,"date":"2023-08-23T02:20:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/22\/thaksin-shinawatra-thailand-what-happens-next"},"modified":"2023-08-23T02:20:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:20:32","slug":"why-has-thaksin-shinawatra-returned-to-thailand-and-what-happens-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57760","title":{"rendered":"Why has Thaksin Shinawatra returned to Thailand and what happens next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former prime minister has returned after 15 years and was immediately jailed, while his party has aligned with the military establishment he opposed for years<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s parliament has ended three months of political deadlock \u2013 hours after the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned from exile \u2013 by approving the property tycoon Srettha Thavisin\u2019s appointment as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Srettha will lead a controversial alliance that brings together Pheu Thai, the party backed by Thaksin, and its historic rivals \u2013 parties linked to generals who led the last coup in 2014.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/22\/thaksin-shinawatra-thailand-what-happens-next\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former prime minister has returned after 15 years and was immediately jailed, while his party has aligned with the military establishment he opposed for yearsThailand\u2019s parliament has ended three months of political deadlock \u2013 hours after the forme&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,93,2873,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand","category-thaksin-shinawatra","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57761,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57760\/revisions\/57761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}