BANGKOK, June 18 – Thailand’s opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva on Monday stood firm in his stance that his Democrat Party has no plan to join the Pheu Thai-led government as earlier proposed by ousted ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra.

The Democrat leader made clear his stance after the party’s former secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban revealed that convicted ex-premier Thaksin had sent mediators to invite the Democrat party to join the government in exchange for the party not objecting to the attempted rewriting of the Constitution and the passage of a national reconciliation bill.

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