Thai PM neither resigns nor dissolves Parliament

BANGKOK, November 23 (TNA) - The ruling Pheu Thai (เพื่อไทย) Party has reiterated that Thai Prime Minister and Defence Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has no plan to neither resign nor dissolve the Parliament due to mounting domestic political pressure. Pheu Thai Party Spokesman Anusorn Iamsa-ard announced the prime minister's stance on Saturday (Nov 23), insisting that the prime minister also has no plan for any new Cabinet reshuffle. Anusorn assessed that less than 100,000 people would join a mass rally called by a former deputy prime minister and a former MP of Thailand's main opposition Democrat Party, Suthep Thaugsuban, at the Democracy Monument on Bangkok's Rajadamnoen Avenue on Sunday (Nov 24), when leaders of the red-clad United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD), aligned with the Pheu Thai Party-led government, also called a mass rally of their supporters at Rajamangala National Stadium in the capital's Hua Mak area to protect the Yingluck government. The ruling party's spokesman affirmed that the Yingluck administration would not use force against the anti-government demonstrators. The prime minister has, in the meantime, ordered security agencies concerned to tighten security at government offices and at residences of important figures, while police have been gathering intelligence on rally movements round-the-clock. Meanwhile, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has assigned doctors and nurses to help those attending the rallies, but the City Authority insisted that its medical personnel will not involve in politics. (TNA)