综合一区欧美国产,99国产麻豆免费精品,九九精品黄色录像,亚洲激情青青草,久久亚洲熟妇熟,中文字幕av在线播放,国产一区二区卡,九九久久国产精品,久久精品视频免费

中文USEUROPEAFRICAASIA
World / Asia-Pacific

Thai police fail to reach deal with protesters

(Agencies) Updated: 2014-02-16 18:35

Thai police fail to reach deal with protesters

An anti-government protester wearing a headband gestures during a rally near the Government Complex in Bangkok February 16, 2014. [Photo/Agencies]

DEEPER CRISIS

The protests are the latest episode in an eight-year conflict that broadly pits Bangkok's middle class and royalist establishment against supporters of Yingluck and her brother, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. An election on February 2 failed to break the deadlock.

Protesters, aligned with the opposition Democrat Party, blocked voting in a fifth of constituencies, a result that left parliament without a quorum to approve a new government.

The protesters are demanding that Yingluck resign to make way for an appointed "people's council" to overhaul a political system they say has been tainted by her brother, who lives in exile abroad to avoid a jail term for graft.

Thailand's Election Commission will meet with government representatives on Monday to discuss how to complete voting that has been marred by violence and resistance from protesters.

The commission has said it will try to hold elections on April 27 in areas where the February vote was disrupted.

Prompong Nopparit, an adviser to Yingluck's party, said at a news conference that the commission needed to ensure voting can take place by late April to avoid propelling Thailand even deeper into crisis.

"If the Election Commission doesn't listen to all sides...this might be detrimental to Thailand and the election may be voided," said Prompong, echoing sentiments expressed by commission member Somchai Srisutthiyakorn that the whole vote may need to be re-run.

The commission has been locked in a public dispute with the government over who has the authority to call the elections for the rest of the seats and whether the polling date has to be endorsed by the king.

Adding to Yingluck's troubles, judicial cases have been piling up against her party, most prominently an investigation into a rice subsidy scheme for farmers that become one of the biggest threats to her grip on power.

The scheme won her millions of votes in the country's rural heartland and helped sweep Yingluck to power in 2011 but allegations of mismanagement have left her government scrambling to find 130 billion baht ($3.99 billion) to pay some 1 million farmers.

Thailand's National Anti-Corruption Commission said last week it expects to file formal charges against Yingluck for her role in the rice scheme later this month.

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

Trudeau visits Sina Weibo
May gets little gasp as EU extends deadline for sufficient progress in Brexit talks
Ethiopian FM urges strengthened Ethiopia-China ties
Yemen's ex-president Saleh, relatives killed by Houthis
Most Popular
Hot Topics
...
新宁县| 宾阳县| 广饶县| 阿鲁科尔沁旗| 隆回县| 张北县| 古丈县| 屯留县| 文成县| 遂宁市| 鄂托克前旗| 陇西县| 赫章县| 鹿邑县| 七台河市| 鸡东县| 米脂县| 万安县| 天等县| 辽宁省| 安丘市| 荥经县| 德庆县| 河北省| 青海省| 新绛县| 松原市| 宜兰市| 达孜县| 鹰潭市| 景德镇市| 柳河县| 新宾| 榆树市| 仁怀市| 榆林市| 资源县| 临海市| 富川| 宁安市| 衡东县|