Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his Thai Rak Thai party won an overwhelming electoral majority in early 2005.
"Tarrin doesn't look at macroeconomic policy, " says Surakiart Sathirathai, a leading economic adviser to the Thai Rak Thai Party.
Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party says the generals are actually courting trouble, as an excuse to cling to power.
Last month, Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party lost two by-elections, giving the opposition enough seats to table censure motions against ministers.
His Thai Rak Thai party, whose policies of cheap health care and microcredit had won strong support from rural voters, was subsequently dissolved.
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Thaksin transferred his shares in Shin to his relatives before he led his Thai Rak Thai Party--Thais Love Thais--to an election victory in 2001.
The big investigations that have been started into corruption in the Thaksin government may sap support for the deposed leader and his Thai Rak Thai party, reducing their chances of a comeback.
Whether or not the Thai Rak Thai party leader is guilty of wrongdoing with either his assets declarations or his dispersal of shareholdings is a matter for the political watchdog and the courts.
By contrast, Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party was the first party ever in Thailand to run on a platform of reform policies, which in large measure explains why he won so resoundingly.
This is what is happening to Thai Rak Thai Party leader Thaksin Shinawatra, who has been under attack in the media for allegedly shady asset transfers in his attempts to conform with the requirements of the constitution.
In July 1998 Thaksin abandoned Thailand's political mainstream and founded his own Thai Rak Thai (Thai Unity) Party.
He formed his own party, Thai Rak Thai, or 'Thais Love Thais'.
Indeed, the only ones to prosper were those running on Thai Rak Thai's ticket, which suggests that they needed the party more than it needed them.
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