Thai authorities meet in wake of Feb 2 election

NONTHABURI, THAILAND, February 3 (TNA) - Thailand's Caretaker Prime Minister and Defence Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is scheduled to have a meeting with other authorities concerned on Monday to work out a concluded report on results of Sunday's general election. Yingluck, who now works at the Office of the Permanent Secretary for Defence in Muang Thong Thani on the outskirts of Bangkok, is likely to also discuss the updated situation relating to persistent political demonstrations with the concerned authorities at the meeting. Meanwhile, anti-government protesters have left some demonstration sites in Bangkok for safety. Protesters of the anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) left their demonstration sites at the Victory Monument and Lat Phrao Intersection and moved to their colleagues' site in front of the Lumpini public park at Sala Daeng Intersection for safety earlier in the day, while workers of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) were then cleaning up the former demonstration sites. Deputy Permanent Secretary for Justice Thawatchai Thaikheow, was, again, holding talks with PDRC leaders on Monday afternoon to ask protesters to let officials enter and work at the Government Complex on Chaeng Watthana Road in the capital. In Trang Province in the Thai South, about 2,000 anti-government protesters celebrated their successful blockage of the February 2 general election in Kantang, Sikao, Yan Ta Khao and Wang Wiset Districts. But the protesters have continued blocking access to local government offices in 10 Trang's districts and vowed to obstruct by-election on February 23, 2014 and following elections until their demand for a domestic political reform prior to the new general election is achieved.(TNA)