Thai protesters continue stadium blockade hoping to delay February election
- 10 years ago
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION).
STORY: Several hundred anti-government protesters continued to camp outside a Bangkok stadium on Tuesday (December 24) blocking the entrance so that electoral candidates could not go into the venue to register for the February general election.
Protesters, who had stayed overnight in tents did their morning stretching exercises outside the stadium.
Yingluck has called a snap election for February 2 to defuse tension but the opposition Democrat Party will boycott the poll and demonstrators are determined to scuttle it.
The protesters are led by Suthep Thaugsuban, a former Democrat heavyweight whose campaign is less about policy than ridding politics of the billionaire Shinawatra family.
At least nine political parties, including Yingluck's Puea Thai, successfully registered on Monday (December 23) before the venue were blocked by thousands of protesters.
Election Commission member Somchai Srisutthiyakorn said the dea
STORY: Several hundred anti-government protesters continued to camp outside a Bangkok stadium on Tuesday (December 24) blocking the entrance so that electoral candidates could not go into the venue to register for the February general election.
Protesters, who had stayed overnight in tents did their morning stretching exercises outside the stadium.
Yingluck has called a snap election for February 2 to defuse tension but the opposition Democrat Party will boycott the poll and demonstrators are determined to scuttle it.
The protesters are led by Suthep Thaugsuban, a former Democrat heavyweight whose campaign is less about policy than ridding politics of the billionaire Shinawatra family.
At least nine political parties, including Yingluck's Puea Thai, successfully registered on Monday (December 23) before the venue were blocked by thousands of protesters.
Election Commission member Somchai Srisutthiyakorn said the dea