Thai anti-government protesters set up campaign to oust government

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Thai anti-government protesters set up campaign to oust government

I can't help but feel as though this article is incomplete, there is a missing piece to the picture. It mentions that Thaksin was a former tycoon, talks a bit about the financial market, how Thai isn't doing well in that arena & the prevailing pattern since 2001.

Thaksin is a former telecommunications tycoon who is hugely popular with poor urban and rural voters who have put him, or his party, into power in every election since 2001.

He was ousted in a 2006 military coup that was largely welcomed by Bangkok's middle class. He has hovered ghost-like over Thai politics since fleeing the country in 2008, accused of undermining the powerful monarchy, breaching conflict-of-interest laws and sentenced in absentia to two years in prison.

Though Yingluck, who opponents accuse of being a puppet for her brother, is expected to prevail in Thursday's confidence vote, it is unlikely to defuse a crisis fuelled by anger over the electoral and legislative power the Shinawatra family has long held, and is accused of abusing.

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It is a confusing picture characterised variously as a class war, a rural-urban split, a clash between ancient and modern or a showdown between royalists and republicans.

Many anti-government protesters draw a distinction between themselves and the poor who are fiercely loyal to Thaksin.

"We are rich and our children are educated in Bangkok," said Nonthapan Suwananon, an anti-government protestor who manages an office. "They are poor, uneducated and have been bought out by Thaksin and his lot."