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Sun, 08/31/2014 - 08:33
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Ex-PM backs new govt to bring peace to Thailand

BANGKOK, August 31 (TNA) - Former prime minister Somchai Wongsawat Sunday celebrated his 67th birthday, wishing a new government which is being formed smooth administration as well as success in ridding divisiveness in the country so that it could move forward. Somchai, who was dismissed as prime minister in December 2008 after the Constitutional Court ruled to dissolve his party for electoral fraud, opened his house in Bangkok to receive well-wishers on his birthday. A large number of close associates and former politicians turned up to wish him well. Speaking to reporters, Somchai said he did not want any birthday gift but he wished Thailand to be peaceful and Thai people to be happy. Somchai also said he had no special advice to the new government but only moral support for it to successfully administer the country. Asked whether ousted prime ministers Thaksin Shinawatra and Yingluck Shinawatra had talked with him on his birthday, Somchai said Thaksin gave him a birthday wish in advance when the met in Singapore recently. Somchai said they did not talk much on politics when they last met, adding that he also met Yingluck regularly. Somchai is a brother-in-law to Thaksin and Yingluck. (TNA)

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