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Thai protesters continue stadium blockade hoping to delay February election

2013-12-24 31 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION).<br/> <br />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.<br/> <br />Protesters, who had stayed overnight in tents did their morning stretching exercises outside the stadium.<br/> <br />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.<br/> <br />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.<br/> <br />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.<br/> <br />Election Commission member Somchai Srisutthiyakorn said the dea

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