Barred from discussing politics by the Thai junta, ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra opened up her Bangkok home on Friday to talk about her new passion: vegetables.
Yingluck, Thailand’s first female premier, was removed from office by a court shortly before the May 2014 coup.
She has since been buffeted by travel restrictions, banned from politics and tangled up in a negligence case that carries a 10-year jail sentence.
That has limited to her to oblique references to the kingdom’s decade-old political crisis and she now attempts to keep in the public eye through Facebook updates and increasingly frequent publicity stunts.
You will have to live with this constitution. So please make sure it fits with Thailand. It must be people-centric
On Friday foreign media were invited for salad at her Bangkok compound where the smiling ex-premier gave a tour of her vegetable garden.
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In a peculiarly Thai-style navigation of the curbs on her activities, she gently parried questions on politics in favour of urging her compatriots to eat more salad.
