Everyone will walk legal, constitutional and political tightropes on Thaksin

File photo : Thaksin Shinawatra//Reuters

Article 112 requires prudence in everything – enforcement, commentaries for and against, judgement of wrongdoing and etc. Cue Thaksin Shinawatra and that can be an understatement.

In a few days, he is expected to be granted parole for convictions unrelated to Article 112. But also in a few days, police charges that the former prime minister had violated the royal defamation law while in exile overseas will get the limelight. Will or should he go straight back into police custody?

The question is simple enough, but it’s being asked amid a highly-complicated and totally uncharted political situation.

The government is led by a political movement he founded. The Pheu Thai Party is allied reluctantly with those who had perceived him as bad news for Thailand’s system of Constitutional Monarchy.

The lese majeste law is frowned upon by the…