Meanwhile, not long after returning from prison, Pichit became a party-list MP for Pheu Thai Party. He played a leading role in trying to push for the enactment of a blanket amnesty bill, that would have secured Thaksin’s freedom. However, Pichit’s attempts to push this bill through became a cause for protests that eventually led to the 2014 coup, which overthrew Thaksin’s younger sister Yingluck Shinawatra’s government.
Pichit was also once head of the legal defence team that represented former PM Yingluck.
Yingluck fled Thailand before the court sentenced her to five years in jail over criminal negligence related to the rice price guarantee scheme.
In 2019, Pichit began chairing the legal advisory panel of the Thai Raksa Chart Party before the party was dissolved by the Constitutional Court.
Sources believe he is eligible for the post of PM’s Office minister because…
