Thai PM slams fortune teller over downfall prediction: reports

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

BANGKOK (AFP) — Thailand's combative prime minister has lashed out at a famous fortune teller for predicting his new government's downfall in another military coup, local press reported Monday.

Samak Sundaravej used his Sunday TV show to criticise Varin Buaviratlert, whose clients are rumoured to include ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra's wife, and the man who overthrew Thaksin, former army chief Sonthi Boonyaratglin.

Varin last week predicted that the coalition government led by Samak would collapse in the coming months, resulting in political chaos and possible bloodshed, the English-language Bangkok Post and Nation newspapers reported.

He also predicted that Thailand's new army chief General Anupong Paojinda would be the next prime minister, the papers...

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