Democrat party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva says new election should stop

BANGKOK, Feb 11 – Thailand’s Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva has called on caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to accept the fact that the Feb 2 general election was unsuccessful and that new balloting should be called off.

He said several quarters in society have agreed that Thailand urgently needs national reform and that the snap polls, which failed to take place in scores of constituencies nationwide, should not be held again.

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