CHIANG MAI - The abbot of Wat Doi Suthep will hold a Visakha Bucha Day ceremony on Tuesday to wipe away the bad fortune for Yingluck Shinawatra.
Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra buy magazines as she went shopping in Chiang Mai on Monday. (Photo by Cheewin Sattha)
The former prime minister, dismissed by the Constitutional Court last week, is not expected to attend the ceremony.
The temple said on Monday that Phra Thepvorasitthajarn, the abbot, will lead Chiang Mai residents to the 9am ceremony.
Ms Yingluck looked relaxed as she went shopping in Muang district of Chiang Mai with a group of police led by Pol Lt Gen Suthep Detraksa, deputy chief of the Provincial Police Region 5.
She also visited Wat Phrathat Hariphunchai, the main temple in Lamphun.
The former prime minister was popular with people in the two provinces wanting to take pictures with her.
Kanchana Silpa-archa, the daughter of veteran politician Banharn, who was in Chiang Mai on Monday, praised her work and hoped she would be more relaxed and able to walk proudly in Thailand.
Ms Yingluck has stayed in Chiang Mai since the Constitutional Court dismissed her on May 7, ruling that her 2011 transfer of National Security Council (NSC) chief Thawil Pliensri was for personal reasons and gain. The verdict followed the Supreme Administrative Court's ruling in April that the order was unconstitutional.
The transfer cleared the way for Pol Gen Priewpan Damapong, her former brother-in-law, to be the national police chief, replacing Pol Gen Wichen Photposree who was moved to the NSC.
In an anti-climax, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) decided on May 8 to seek her impeachment over the controversial rice-pledging scheme after finding grounds to a charge of dereliction of duty against her in her position as chairwoman of the National Rice Policy Committee. The NACC decision would have also disqualified her as premier.
She also faces a potential five-year ban from politics if the Senate impeaches her.