Thai Democrat party announces mass resignation

The opposition Democrat Party on Sunday resolved that all of its MPs would resign en masse to highlight that the government no longer had legitimacy.

MPs from the opposition Democrat Party resigned en masse on Sunday in what was seen as the party’s last-ditch effort to force Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to dissolve the House of Representatives and transfer administrative power to protesters.

The decision came a day before the People’s Democratic Reform Committee’s (PDRC) nationwide march is supposed to start. Today is its “final battle” to topple the government and get rid of the so-called “Thaksin regime”.

Read more: Bangkok Post

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