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DAAD leaders, who host the "Truth Today" programme on NBT, vowed to expose alleged military interference in politics during the mobile Truth Today broadcast from the National Stadium on Saturday.

The Truth Today hosts - Veera Musigapong, Jatuporn Promphan and Natthawut Saikua - held a press conference to attack the military and the Democrat Party.

Veera said he was told that leading members of certain political parties were called to a meeting at the home of a senior military officer on Saturday night and were told to support the Democrats as the next coalition leader.

The general told the party representatives that he received an order from someone.

"So, we, in the name of the red-shirted people [DAAD], would like to call this a coup in disguise," Veera said.

He urged democracy lovers to come out to oppose the alleged military meddling in politics by attending the Truth Today rally on Saturday.

He said leading Democrat members took two hours to drive from their party headquarters to the Sukho Thai Hotel where they held a press conference introducing the coalition because they dropped by the First Infantry Battalion of the First Infantry Division first.

"We would like to condemn politicians who give in to the military as betrayers of democracy," Veera said.

"We'll explain the coup in disguise in detail on December 13."

Jatuporn said former PM Thaksin would make a call-in to address his supporters at the rally and would talk about the current political situation.

Suriyasai Katasila, a leading member of the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy, said Thaksin and his former wife Pojaman Damapong would fight to retain ruling power instead of letting the Democrats take it away.

However, Thaksin might send his proxies among the rebel groups of former People Power Party MPs or smaller parties to form a coalition with the Democrats so that Thaksin could still wield power indirectly, he said.

The PAD would not disband yet and would closely monitor the political situation, he said.

The PAD's five co-leaders would take a formal stance after the next government is formed, he added.