Thousands of protesters gathered in the Thai capital, Bangkok, this Saturday (28) to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra.
Protest increases pressure on a government at risk of collapse due to a border dispute with neighboring Cambodia.
The protester Phongsaphak Hathaiphisut, a former 19-year-old Pheu Thai, said that the leak of audio recordings, who launched doubts about the Prime Minister’s motivations, was the drop of water that broke his loyalty.
This was the biggest protest of this type since the.
Crowds challenged potentially strong monsoon rain forecasts to protest against, which also struggles to revive a crisis economy and maintain a united fragile coalition before facing a possible vote of distrust next month.
The demonstration was organized by the United Force of the Earth, a coalition of mostly nationalist activists who have joined other governments supported by Shinawatra in the last two decades.
In a statement read aloud before the crowd, the group stated that “the executive branch” and parliament were not working “in the interest of democracy and constitutional monarchy.”
The remaining partners of the coalition should resign immediately, they said.
Although previous protests against Shinawatras did not directly cause the fall of these governments, they increased the pressure that led to legal interventions and military coups in 2006 and 2014.
