Academics believe a recent tweet by fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was intended as a political gambit to drum up support for the Pheu Thai Party, which pollsters are predicting may lose votes to the increasingly popular Move Forward Party (MFP) ahead of the May 14 general election.
Thaksin tweeted on Monday that now his seventh and youngest grandchild has been born, he will be back soon because, at 73 years old, he wants to take care of his grandchildren.
