Thailand’s Thaksin Shinawatra faces a political reckoning as Pheu Thai reels

By Panu Wongcha-um

BANGKOK (Reuters) -When Sakda Vicheansil, a lawmaker from western Thailand, announced his resignation from the ruling Pheu Thai party in early September, his words reflected the extraordinary decline of the country’s most dominant politician, Thaksin Shinawatra.

“Thai people across the country, and especially in my constituency – Kanchanaburi, Constituency 4 – are suffering,” he said on Facebook.

“The government has completely failed to resolve their problems.”

Former premier…