0 Thai activist seeks to thwart PM elect Yingluck

Days after Thailand Voted for a new government Led by the country's first woman prime a minister , a determined doctor with a kanck for rallying crowds is pursuing legal action to bring her down. Tul sitthisomwong a die- hard opponent of self exiled former prime minster elect, yingluck is unfit to rule and accuses her before she takes office. Tul denies he is a puppet for the power ful forces who have long tried to thwart the twice -elected Thaksin but says yingluck is unfit to rule and accuses her of giving false testimony involving her brother three years ago.

The next prime minister has been involved in corruption and we fear this will be the beginning of another cycle that cannot be broken " Tul a lecturer , gynaecologist and obstetrician told Reuters .

"Yingluck has promised to follow brother Thaksin policies , but thaksin 's policy was corruption and we can't accept that " sais tTul , who mobilised thousands of demonstrators last year incounter - protests against a nine- week occupation of central Bangkok by  Thaksin's red shirted supporters Tul is a member of the royalist peoples alliance  for Democracy or yellow shirts " Thaksin was convicted in absentia of araft in 2008 but control's puea Thai from exile in Dubai , refusing to serve a two year jail term he says was contrived by the country's military and royalist establishment to  keep him at day.

The supreme court last year seized $1.4 billion of Thaksin assets , which it said were accrued while he was prime minister from 2001-2005. Legal experts say the complaint which covers at least five members of the shinawatra  family is not without grounds and is a potentially explosive issue that could further divide thailand between those who revere and revile thaksin.

Many analysts Expect thaksin's opponents to fight back at some point in future either through the military , the PAD or through the courts actions they say could escalate thailand s polarising and violent six year political crisis.

Thailand courts have not shied away from political cases especially those involving Thaksin and his allies.