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Monday, 9 December 2013
Thai PM rejects resignation call
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has rejected protesters` demands that she resign before February`s snap elections.
Demonstrators have been calling for Yingluck Shinawatra to resign and be replaced with a "people`s prime minister", reports BBC.
Ms Yingluck won the last polls in 2011, but protesters say ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra remains in charge.
Thailand is facing its largest political turmoil since 2010.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Ms Yingluck urged protesters to stop and "use the electoral system to choose who will become the next government."
"I must do my duty as caretaker prime minister according to the constitution," she said, adding: "I have retreated as far as I can - give me some fairness."
On Monday, around 150,000 protesters had converged around the government headquarters in what they had described as a final push to unseat the government.
On the same day, Ms Yingluck announced that she would dissolve parliament and call elections, now set for 2 February.
An anti-government protester eats breakfast as she wakes up outside Government House in Bangkok on 10 December 2013 A small number of protesters remain camped outside Government House
However, protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban, a former opposition politician, said that the demonstrations would continue.
"We will select a people`s prime minister and set up a government of the people and a people`s assembly to replace parliament," he said late on Monday.
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