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Deputy PM Suthep sees coalition ties remaining strong
BANGKOK, March 23 (TNA) - Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban on Tuesday said he believed the political parties in the coalition government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will continue working with the Democrat Party as partners in government despite attempts to persuade them to pull out of the coalition government.
Mr Suthep's comments followed reports that opposition Puea Thai Party chairman Gen Chavalit Yongchaiyuth was on mission to entice the coalition parties into pulling out of the coalition government.
Gen Chavalit, a former prime minister, denied the report, saying that he hadonly discussed political issues with coalition party leaders in order to find best solution on the way out of the political gridlock, not to persuade them to pull out of the coalition government.
The deputy prime minister gave assurances that the coalition parties are still working very well and have a good understanding among each other.
Mr Suthep said that he felt unworried over the planned Red Shirt mass rally this Saturday, saying they could demonstrate with as many protesters as they wish so long as the do not break the law.
He said the government respected the rights and comments of every group and that it would have no special measures to deal with Saturday's rally, but that protesters should not block traffic.
The deputy premier said he was confident that the government could maintain law and order and would apply the utmost restraint to deal with the demonstrators.
In a related developmet, the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) has launched their latest campaign to pressure the government to dissolve Parliament by using motorcycle taxis drivers and other volunteers to distribute self-adhesive promotional sticker spreading the slogan 'Dissolve Parliament' to the people of Bangkok.
UDD leader Weng Tochirakan on Tueday morning told the Red Shirts 500 volunteer motorcyclists to distribute the sticker-handbills on designated routes particularly at the Government Complex at Changwattana Road and Ministry of Public Health where the cabinet convened to avoid confrontation.
The motorcycle motorcade will repeat the routes of last Saturday's UDD mass caravan that left Phan Fah Bridge--its main protest site winding its traffic-tangling way to Yommaraj, New Phetchaburi Road, Asok intersection, Ratchadapisek Road, Lad Prao, Bangkapi, Ramkamhaeng, Phrakanong, Rama 4, Rama 3 via Krungthep Bridge to Thonburi past Wongwien Yai, back to Sathorn Bridge to Silom, Yaowaraj, Lanluang and return to Phan Fah Bridge.
Dr Weng, a medical doctor, asserted to the Red Shirt activists that the protest site is an open air venue, the temperatures arehigher than 40 degrees Celsius (able to kill the virus) and urged the goverment stop spreading the rumour that the influenza type A(H1N1) is spreading widely among
the protesters.
A reporter from a Bangkok television station and a protester from Phetchaburi reportedly contracted the virus and are now being treated at hospitals and recovering well. (TNA)
Mr Suthep's comments followed reports that opposition Puea Thai Party chairman Gen Chavalit Yongchaiyuth was on mission to entice the coalition parties into pulling out of the coalition government.
Gen Chavalit, a former prime minister, denied the report, saying that he hadonly discussed political issues with coalition party leaders in order to find best solution on the way out of the political gridlock, not to persuade them to pull out of the coalition government.
The deputy prime minister gave assurances that the coalition parties are still working very well and have a good understanding among each other.
Mr Suthep said that he felt unworried over the planned Red Shirt mass rally this Saturday, saying they could demonstrate with as many protesters as they wish so long as the do not break the law.
He said the government respected the rights and comments of every group and that it would have no special measures to deal with Saturday's rally, but that protesters should not block traffic.
The deputy premier said he was confident that the government could maintain law and order and would apply the utmost restraint to deal with the demonstrators.
In a related developmet, the anti-government United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) has launched their latest campaign to pressure the government to dissolve Parliament by using motorcycle taxis drivers and other volunteers to distribute self-adhesive promotional sticker spreading the slogan 'Dissolve Parliament' to the people of Bangkok.
UDD leader Weng Tochirakan on Tueday morning told the Red Shirts 500 volunteer motorcyclists to distribute the sticker-handbills on designated routes particularly at the Government Complex at Changwattana Road and Ministry of Public Health where the cabinet convened to avoid confrontation.
The motorcycle motorcade will repeat the routes of last Saturday's UDD mass caravan that left Phan Fah Bridge--its main protest site winding its traffic-tangling way to Yommaraj, New Phetchaburi Road, Asok intersection, Ratchadapisek Road, Lad Prao, Bangkapi, Ramkamhaeng, Phrakanong, Rama 4, Rama 3 via Krungthep Bridge to Thonburi past Wongwien Yai, back to Sathorn Bridge to Silom, Yaowaraj, Lanluang and return to Phan Fah Bridge.
Dr Weng, a medical doctor, asserted to the Red Shirt activists that the protest site is an open air venue, the temperatures arehigher than 40 degrees Celsius (able to kill the virus) and urged the goverment stop spreading the rumour that the influenza type A(H1N1) is spreading widely among
the protesters.
A reporter from a Bangkok television station and a protester from Phetchaburi reportedly contracted the virus and are now being treated at hospitals and recovering well. (TNA)
