SURAT THANI — The firebrand leader of the ultra-conservative protest movement that helped pave the way for the 2014 coup d’etat says he will leave the monkhood and return to activism in the near future.

Suthep Thaugsuban, a veteran Democrat Party politician who became a monk after leading mass anti-government protests for six months prior to the 22 May coup, told reporters at a forest monastery in Surat Thani today that the rumors about his plan to return to secular – and political – life are true.

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