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| Southeast Asia |
| Thai PM calls early polls |
| 2013-12-10 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Thailand's premier called a snap election yesterday to try to defuse the kingdom's political crisis, but protesters kept up their fight to topple the government with an estimated 140,000 demonstrators flooding the streets of Bangkok. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has faced more than a month of sometimes-violent demonstrations by boisterous protesters storming key state buildings in a bid to unseat her government and replace it with an unelected "People's Council". By dissolving parliament and calling a new election that her party is likely to win, the embattled premier aims to cool public anger without bowing to the demonstrators' demands to suspend the country's democratic system. |
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