Pro-Thaksin group threatens to protest
One day after the government decided to lift martial law in Bangkok, a pressure group linked to deposed PM Thaksin Shinawatra has threatened to organise a mass protest in the city on December 10.
The group demanded the government to call a general election within 90 days. Chanapat na Nakhon, chairman of the Democracy Lover Network, said that labourers from Bangkok, farmers from 10 northeastern provinces, five southern provinces and six northern provinces will join the protest at the Democracy Monument. December 10 is Democracy Day. The activist said he expected at least 30,000 people to take part in the protest. He denied that his group is proThaksin Shinawatra, saying that some members of group was once duped by the Thaksin government but they have left his group. "We are purely democracy lovers and we want to restore democracy to the country,'' he said. The Nation
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