Volume 52, February, 2006 Thailand, Page 47095
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Feb 2006 - THAILAND
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Feb. 24 dissolved the National Assembly (the lower house of the bicameral legislature) and called a general election for April 2, three years ahead of schedule, in response to an increasingly clamorous campaign for him to step down. Analysts said that Thaksin, who had won an unprecedented landslide victory with his Thai Rak Thai ( TRTThais Love Thais) party as recently as February 2005 [see pp. 46471-72], was counting on his continuing strong rural support, together with the opposition parties' organisational weaknesses and shortage of funding, to return him to power. Thaksin's announcement came ahead of a rally on Feb. 26 in Bangkok, the capital, in which tens of thousands of protesters demanded his resignation [see also pp. 46986-87].
However, Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva on Feb. 27 announced that his party, the Chart Thai and Mahachon parties, would boycott the election. Thaksin had agreed to the request for ...

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