BANGKOK - Ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said via video link on Saturday morning that he was confident that the opposition Puea Thai Party would win the coming general election and able to form the next government, local news reports said.

In his video link to talk to key figures of the opposition party, affiliated with the anti-government "red-shirt" supporters to unveil election policy of the party. Thaksin thanked executive members who had mapped out the policy and sent it to him for consideration.  

The general election is expected to be held in June as Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva announced he would dissolve the House early May.

He said that if Puea Thai becomes the government, people will be happy as they all will not be poor anymore.

"At the coming election, people will make their decision to choose between good at working government or good at talking government. Between the government that pros democracy or the one that supports dictatorship, and between the government that will return justice to all people suffered from injustice after the 2006 coup or the one with double standards system," Bangkok Post quoted Thaksin as saying.

The ex-premier thanked the red-shirts for calling justice for him and insisted that he was ready to return to Thailand if the people want him to help work for the country.

The policy unveiling event was organized at Thammasat University, Rangsit campus. More than ten thousands of red-shirt supporters, Puea Thai party members and MPs attended the event.

After the coup that ousted then Prime Minister Thaksin in 2006, Thailand has long been struggling with polarized political conflict with two main camps -- pro-establishment and anti-Thaksin yellow-shirt and anti-coup and pro-Thaksin red-shirt.

The opposition Pheu Thai Party is the third incarnation of a Thai political party originally founded by Thaksin. The Pheu Thai Party was founded in 2008, as an anticipated replacement for the People's Power Party (PPP), which the Constitutional Court of Thailand dissolved less than three months later after finding party members guilty of electoral fraud. The People's Power Party was itself a replacement for Thakin's original Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party, which the Constitutional Court dissolved in May 2007 for violation of electoral laws.