Thaksin is in fact a businessman, and this makes him more bendable than Move Forward. If the economy picks up and the grass-roots benefit, whatever his true intention is, Pheu Thai will reap gains.
The wall of Chaiyan's Chulalongkorn University office is adorned with a framed photo of him tearing up his ballot paper at a voting station, clipped from a newspaper front page.
Why is what is proclaimed to be the government's main agenda so crucial to the economy inching its way?
