I decided to lead this party because its policies are neutral and our country is deeply divided. The party goal is to make our country peaceful
I staged the coup to overthrow the Thaksin government and to preserve democracy. But a diplomat asked me recently how can Thailand have backtracked so much in the past two years
It depends on our policy, if our policies are in line with them
As long as the government is in office we will demonstrate -- this government is not legitimate
This time there will be two stints of protest as we have to stop for the king's birthday celebrations (on December 5).
It’s something all the Thais who love our King want to come out and show the support to the government in responding to Mr. Hun Sen’s and Mr. Thaksin’s collaboration to sabotage Thailand ... So all of us are coming out in real support and show our spiritual support peacefully.
People feel we need to show the power that we really love the country and the dignity and our pride of our country because what Thaksin has been doing is really unacceptable ... This time with Cambodia, with Hun Sen it’s too much, it’s really ridiculous.
This situation, yes [Thaksin] come to Cambodia ... I think he’s not a Thai. But the story is he to destroy the Thailand. He don’t love the Thailand, he’s not a Thai.
Superficially, it looks as if Thaksin has lost badly to identify yourself with a rather unpopular neighbor, it’s not good ... So I think things have hardened against him. But I’m not really sure whether for many of his core supporters that may not matter too much at all. Perhaps by making himself so vis...
The issue is now how does he [Abhisit] sustain that [advantage] or does he want to sustain that? Does it mean that this government now has to play this nationalist card very hard and very constanstly and that of course would be very dangerous