The government has also invoked the Internal Security Act that allows the military to ban gatherings and impose curfews.
Watching this latest drama play out is a 50,000-strong security force including soldiers and riot police deployed across Bangkok and surrounding provinces, the Bangkok Post reported. Now he is adamantly resisting calls for new polls, thereby risking an escalation of the so far peaceful confrontation on the streets.Īs always in Thailand, where the military has taken over 18 times since the country became a constitutional monarchy in 1932, the army is never far away.
Not long after, he was forced to declare a state of emergency to maintain his grip on power. Abhisit did not gain office by popular vote but was installed at the end of 2008 after counter-demonstrations forced a pro-Thaksin coalition from office. But Thailand's current prime minister, the Eton and Oxford-educated Abhisit Vejjajiva, is vulnerable to charges that he is a frontman for the vested interests of the Thai establishment. "I am a symbol of those bullied by the elite who do not care about democracy and justice." Fight for the country," he told his supporters at the weekend, speaking from an undisclosed overseas location. Despite a recent court ruling that found him guilty of corruption and seized nearly £1bn of his assets, Thaksin remains the power to be reckoned with in Thai politics.
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