Yingluck Offers Referendum as Thai Opposition Joins Protest
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Thai opposition lawmakers quit en masse to join protests to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who offered to hold a national referendum to end weeks of street demonstrations in Bangkok.
“The cause of the crisis is the government,” Democrat party leader and former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, said at a media briefing late yesterday. “We want to go out and fight with all of the other people on the street.”