BANGKOK — Thailand's billionaire former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Tuesday he wants to return from self-exile before his July 26 birthday, in a tweet he posted just days before a general election. The 73-year-old policeman turned telecoms tycoon, twice elected premier but ousted by a military coup in 2006, said he was ready to face justice after spending the past 15 years outside the kingdom to avoid corruption charges he long maintained were politically motivated. The opposition Pheu Thai party, fronted by Thaksin's daughter Paetongtarn, is ahead in most opinion polls for Sunday's vote, increasing speculation that he may finally make good on repeated promises to return to Thailand.

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