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| Southeast Asia |
| Thai PM rejects protesters' demand to step down |
| 2013-12-11 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Tuesday refused demands by anti-government protesters to resign ahead of upcoming elections, urging them to abandon their "people's revolution". Bangkok has been shaken by more than a month of mass opposition rallies aimed at ousting Yingluck and ridding the kingdom of the influence of her older brother, deposed former leader Thaksin. An estimated 7,000 protesters gathered in the city on Tuesday afternoon calling for the elected government to step down, a sharp drop from the roughly 140,000 people who attended on Monday. The demonstrators are a loosely-allied group united by their animosity towards Thaksin, a billionaire tycoon-turned-politician who was tossed in a military coup seven years ago but is widely thought to control the government from abroad. Yingluck, who called an early election on Monday in an effort to calm the political turmoil, said her cabinet was legally-bound to act as an interim government until the polls are held. |
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