Källa: Yingluck har definitivt lämnat Thailand
Thailands tidigare premiärminister Yingluck Shinawatra dök inte upp när hon skulle få sin dom i en rättegång. Enligt källor har hon redan lämnat landet. Det är personer som står nära Yinglucks familj som uppger för Reuters att hon flytt.
– Hon har definitivt lämnat Thailand, säger en källa som vill vara anonym.
Ytterligare en person bekräftar uppgiften för nyhetsbyrån. Ingen av dem gick närmare in på vart hon tagit vägen. HD har utfärdat en arresteringsorder mot henne och gränsbevakningen skärps, skriver TT.
– Det är inte säkerställt om hon flytt eller inte. Men hon är trots allt en tidigare premiärminister, offentliganställda kan ha hjälpt henne, säger landets vice premiärminister Prawit Wongsuwan.
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Yingluck Shinawatra
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Yingluck Shinawatra (Thai: ยิ่งลักษณ์ ชินวัตร, rtgs: Yinglak Chinnawat, pronounced [jîŋ.lák tɕʰīn.nā.wát]; born 21 June 1967), nicknamed Pu (Thai: ปู, pronounced [pūː], meaning "crab"), is a Thai businesswoman and politician, a member of the Pheu Thai Party who became the 28th Prime Minister of Thailand following the 2011 general election. Yingluck was Thailand's first female Prime Minister and its youngest in over 60 years. Also, she holds the distinction as the world's first female of Chinese descent to have had led the government of a UN member state. She was removed from office on 7 May 2014 by a Constitutional Court decision that found her guilty on a charge of abuse of power.
Born in Chiang Mai Province into a wealthy family of Hakka Chinese descent, Yingluck Shinawatra earned a bachelor's degree from Chiang Mai University and a master's degree from Kentucky State University, both in public administration. She then became an executive in the businesses founded by her elder brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, and later became the president of property developer SC Asset and managing director of Advanced Info Service. Thaksin served as Prime Minister from 2001 until 2006 when he was overthrown by a military coup. He fled abroad shortly before he was convicted in absentia of using his position to increase his own wealth. He has since lived in self-imposed exile to avoid his sentence in prison.
In May 2011, the Pheu Thai Party, which maintains close ties to Thaksin, nominated Yingluck as their candidate for Prime Minister in the 2011 general election. She campaigned on a platform of national reconciliation, poverty eradication, and corporate income tax reduction and won a landslide victory.
After mass protests against her government in late 2013, she asked for a dissolution of parliament on 9 December 2013, triggering a snap election, but continued to act as caretaker prime minister. On 7 May 2014, the Constitutional Court of Thailand removed Yingluck Shinawatra from the office of caretaker prime minister and defence minister following months of political crisis. The court found her guilty of charges of abuse of power over the transfer of national security chief Thawil Pliensri in 2011 to make way for a Pheu Thai supporter. In the wake of the May 2014 military coup, Yingluck was arrested along with former cabinet ministers and political leaders of all parties and held at an army camp for a few days while the coup was consolidated.
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