Thailand: new demonstration before the vote of the motion of censure against the government
Protesters attend a demonstration calling for the resignation of Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha for the government's handling of the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis in Bangkok on September 2, 2021. AFP - JACK TAYLOR
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Daily demonstrations take place in the streets of Bangkok, the Thai capital, to demand the departure of the government, while this Friday takes place in Parliament the last day of debate before a vote which must decide a motion of censure in the against the Prime Minister.
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With our correspondent in Bangkok,
Carol Isoux
“
Get out of the government
”.
It is the rallying cry of these demonstrators who now find themselves every evening in the streets of Bangkok to express their despair in the face of an economic crisis which has pushed millions of
middle-class
Thais
into poverty.
While
the recent third wave of Covid-19
has hit the country hard, behind on its vaccination program, and the unemployment rate has skyrocketed, the pro-democracy protest is resuming.
It now includes new categories of the population.
"The Thais are awake
"
“
Even officials now want the government to leave.
Until now in our country, it is the elites, army and monarchy, who said to the people: advance, or die.
But it must end now, the Thais are awake,
”said Nattawut Saikua, one of the leaders of the movement, from the podium.
The man who speaks is a former leader of the "red shirts", a very active peasant movement ten years ago.
The scale of the economic crisis creates solidarity between the new urban poor and the peasants left behind.
A city-countryside alliance, which the various Thai social movements have so far failed to achieve, is one of the essential conditions for the success of the pro-democracy movement.
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See also: Thailand: a year later, the pro-democracy movement is back on the streets
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