BANGKOK -- Thailand's former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra warned that the country's hopes of returning to democracy are in peril if the government that emerges from Sunday's election is led by a proxy party of the military junta that has ruled for the past five years.
"If Palang Pracharat forms the next government, they will try everything and every way to stay [in power] longer," Thaksin told the Nikkei Asian Review in a telephone interview from Hong Kong on Monday.
