Ex-PM Thaksin visited his daughter, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who took sick leave yesterday suffering a sore throat.
A video posted on the prime minister’s Instagram account, @IngShin21, shows Thaksin in a white shirt and jeans, smiling at the camera before walking into a room.
Paetongtarn’s caption read, “When he learned that his youngest daughter was sick, he rushed to visit her with some gifts. He’s the best.”
The prime minister’s sore throat has left her without her voice, but she also posted to Instagram, sharing a photo of herself sitting with her two young children at home.
Today, she made an official day trip to the northeastern province of Roi Et but still declined to speak to reporters, signaling with her hand that she still had no voice.
Thaksin, whose jail term for corruption ended controversially in August, has never been shy about displaying his political influence and is believed to be behind many of his daughter’s decisions in government.
He has, however, been conspicuously absent from the public scene since several petitions were filed with the Election Commission, seeking the dissolution of his daughter’s ruling Pheu Thai party, alleging that Thaksin is controlling the party.
