Pheu Thai MPs may meet Thaksin in Koh Kong

"Thaksin's brother Payap is in charge of organising the meeting," MP Sakda Kongphet said.

Sakda said fellow lawmakers wanted to meet Thaksin to exchange views on the political situation, and that Thaksin was likely to travel to a neighbouring country such as Cambodia or Laos.

He said Thaksin's phone-in to a party seminar on Monday had been successful in rallying MPs to support his political aspirations, including a planned comeback for the position of prime minister in two years.

He said Pheu Thai was ready to help Thaksin grab power again.

From now on it was time for an all-out war, he said, voicing optimism of a political victory guided by Thaksin and his family members such as his siblings Yaowapha, Payap, Yaowaret and Yingluck.

Opposition chief whip Withaya Buranasiri said Pheu Thai would launch 200 party branches nationwide next Sunday.

Thaksin's legal counsel Noppadon Patama said the ex-premier would sue Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban for defamation for remarks that allegedly portrayed Thaksin as harbouring an ambition to be the country's first president. This was a smear to cast doubt on Thaksin's loyalty to the monarchy, he claimed.