Thai PM Yingluck Urges Thais To Go To Polling Booths

BANGKOK, January 5 (TNA) - Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Sunday urged people to exercise rights and cast their votes on the February 2 general election. Miss Yingluck wrote on her Facebook page that election is the best remedy to solve social divisiveness under the democratic system in Thailand and it has to be undertaken along with national political reform, demanded by anti-government protesters. Disagreeing to this proposal will cause the problem unresolved, people will have to be “patient and enough time must be given in resolving the problems”, she said, adding that if people do not want her government to return and administer the country, they have to fight through the general election . Miss Yingluck said that she did not want to see bloodshed reoccurring in the country like 2010 or poor economy because of the social divisiveness and wanted people to unite in solving problems prevailing in Thailand. Although Miss Yingluck is staying at her private residence on the Bangkok suburbs, she has been constantly monitoring movements of anti-government protesters under the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) who are now marching on Bangkok streets in an attempt to oust her caretaker government and demanded for political reform. Security and the Centre of the Administration of Peace and Order officials keep her informed of the protesters’ movements on a regular basis, according to National Security Council secretary-general Lt. Gen. Paradorn Pattanathabut. The caretaker prime minister has no plan for the time being to perform duties in upcountry and will stay in Bangkok, said Lt. Gen. Paradorn. (TNA)