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SNAP ANALYSIS-Thai army tells govt to step aside
26 Nov 2008 10:29:06 GMT
 Source: Reuters
BANGKOK, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Thailand's army chief told the government on Wednesday to step down and call a snap election, and ordered the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) to cease their anti-government street campaign as a way out of a worsening political crisis.

The elected government and the PAD are yet to respond to the compromise plan laid out by army chief Anupong Paochinda at a news conference.

* Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat is due to have an audience with King Bhumibol Adulyadej later on Wednesday. His administration is unlikely to take any decision before that meeting.

* Anupong and the heads of the navy, air force and national police called on Somchai to stand down in a prime time television interview last month after bloody clashes between police and PAD protesters outside parliament.

Somchai, the brother-in-law of ousted leader Thaksin Shinawatra, refused to comply, making it far from certain he will heed this latest intervention from the military.

* Even though Anupong appeared to be trying to be even-handed, sources within a pro-government protest group said that if Somchai quit, they would regard it as a coup and immediately launch anti-military demonstrations.

"There will be war for sure," one senior member of the Democratic Alliance Against Dictatorship told Reuters. (Reporting by Ed Cropley; Editing by Alan Raybould and Valerie Lee)


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