Bangkok, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, said Thursday that the waves of protest in the country will not disturb the Asian summit called here this weekend and disregarded the idea that his government would resign.
Tens of thousands of followers of the United Front for Democracy against the Dictatorship organized demonstrations in different parts of Thailand, and the government headquarters has been blocked for two weeks.
The demonstrators demand the resignation of the three royal consultants and the cabinet, among their main demands. They issued a 24 hour ultimatum Wednesday, demanding that the government respond.
Abhisit announed on the local television Thursday that he would not give in to the demands.
He reiterated that any steps taken will take place inside the democratic regulations and that all measures of security are in place to guarantee the order. He estimated that the protests will be short.
The Front warned that if its demands are not heard the demonstrations could be extended to Pattaya, the host city of the summit of the Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) with their main partners: China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand, which is to begin on Friday.
One of the leaders of the Front, Jatuporn Prompan, said that the demonstrations have arrived at a critical point from which winners and losers arrise.
He estimated that the coalition headed by the Democratic Party of Abhisit illegitimately took power and therefore it lacks authority to celebrate the Summit.
The Thai government took office last December, after protests of the ultraconservative Alliance for the Democracy precipitated the collapse of two administrations of the dissolved People’s Popular Party, winner in the last election.
Thai political life has polarized into two groups, on one hand the Alliance for Democracy, without parliamentary representation, nurtured by monarchic sectors, oligarchies and the military, and on the other, the Front, followers of the former ruler Taksin Shinawatra, overthrown in 2006.
The focus of the Summit this weekend is the global crisis, among other current topics, and is vital for ASEAN, whose members are: Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Brunei, Singapore, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.
Tens of thousands of followers of the United Front for Democracy against the Dictatorship organized demonstrations in different parts of Thailand, and the government headquarters has been blocked for two weeks.
The demonstrators demand the resignation of the three royal consultants and the cabinet, among their main demands. They issued a 24 hour ultimatum Wednesday, demanding that the government respond.
Abhisit announed on the local television Thursday that he would not give in to the demands.
He reiterated that any steps taken will take place inside the democratic regulations and that all measures of security are in place to guarantee the order. He estimated that the protests will be short.
The Front warned that if its demands are not heard the demonstrations could be extended to Pattaya, the host city of the summit of the Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) with their main partners: China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand, which is to begin on Friday.
One of the leaders of the Front, Jatuporn Prompan, said that the demonstrations have arrived at a critical point from which winners and losers arrise.
He estimated that the coalition headed by the Democratic Party of Abhisit illegitimately took power and therefore it lacks authority to celebrate the Summit.
The Thai government took office last December, after protests of the ultraconservative Alliance for the Democracy precipitated the collapse of two administrations of the dissolved People’s Popular Party, winner in the last election.
Thai political life has polarized into two groups, on one hand the Alliance for Democracy, without parliamentary representation, nurtured by monarchic sectors, oligarchies and the military, and on the other, the Front, followers of the former ruler Taksin Shinawatra, overthrown in 2006.
The focus of the Summit this weekend is the global crisis, among other current topics, and is vital for ASEAN, whose members are: Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Brunei, Singapore, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.
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