CHIANG MAI - Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra took part in a ritual to dispel bad fortune at Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep on Wednesday.
Yingluck Shinatra takes part in a ceremony at Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep in Muang district of Chiang Mai on Wednesday to end her back luck. (Photo by Cheewin Sattha)
Ms Yingluck was accompanied by her son Supasek Amornchat and elder sister Monthathip Shinawatra to the ceremony.
Provincial governor Wichien Putthiwinyu and some of her supporters in Chiang Mai and other northern provinces also attended the ceremony.
Phra Thepvorasitthajarn, the abbot, and 14 other renowned monks in the northern region chaired the ceremony.
The former prime minister has stayed in Chiang Mai since the Constitutional Court disqualified her on May 7, ruling that her 2011 transfer of National Security Council (NSC) chief Thawil Pliensri to an inactive post at the PM's office was for personal reasons and gain. The judgement followed the Supreme Administrative Court's ruling in April that his removal was unconstitutional.
The transfer cleared the way for Pol Gen Priewpan Damapong, her then-brother-in-law, to be appointed national police chief, replacing Pol Gen Wichen Photposree who was moved to the NSC, replacing Mr Thawil.
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.
She also faces a potential five-year ban from politics if the Senate impeachment process finds against her.