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Article: Role for kings in Asia's democracies; Embattled Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra has called for elections Sunday as crowds urge the king to step in.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- March 28, 2006
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Byline: Simon Montlake Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
BANGKOK, THAILAND -- As embattled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra digs in his heels against a strident street campaign to oust him, opposition leaders are turning to Thailand's final arbiter.
Not the Constitutional Court, which batted away a petition to probe Mr. Thaksin's alleged misdemeanors. The ballot box is also mistrusted: Opposition parties are boycotting Sunday's parliamentary elections. Instead, protesters are turning to King Bhumibol Adulyadej, Thailand's revered constitutional monarch, in the hopes he will urge Thaksin to step aside.
Thailand's political crisis ...