Thailand’s Main Opposition Party to Boycott Snap Elections
Ahead of planned Sunday protests in Bangkok
TIME Magazine | 21 Dec. 2013
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Thai Opposition Party to Boycott Elections (International New York Times) |
Thailand’s main opposition party announced plans to boycott a February election aimed at quelling civil protests.
The Democrat Party, the oldest Thai party and the main opposition group to the ruling Pheu Thai party, will not field candidates in protest of a failed political system, the BBC reports.
Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved parliament and called the election earlier this month in response to massive street protests over charges that her deposed brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in 2006, remains in power behind the scenes, though he was exiled to Dubai.
The announcement comes just a day before a scheduled rally in Bangkok, adding to the most serious political protest to hit the country since 2010.
The Democrat Party, the oldest Thai party and the main opposition group to the ruling Pheu Thai party, will not field candidates in protest of a failed political system, the BBC reports.
Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved parliament and called the election earlier this month in response to massive street protests over charges that her deposed brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in 2006, remains in power behind the scenes, though he was exiled to Dubai.
The announcement comes just a day before a scheduled rally in Bangkok, adding to the most serious political protest to hit the country since 2010.
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