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People in Thailand continue to take to the streets in protest against the headline.
By Tuesday, many had left and several had gathered in the Bangkok parliament to show their discontent. According to official figures, 41 people were injured when the police attacked protesters with tear gas, reports the Reutes news agency.
At the center there has been a clash between the conservative yellow shirts and the more progressive red shirt movement.
Reduced influence
The protesters, demanding less influence from the authoritarian monarchy, have responded by shielding themselves with rubber ducks when police used water cannons to repel protesters.
The latest protests are described as the most violent since they took off in July.
Protests in the country have lasted since 2014, when the country’s current prime minister, Prayut Chan-o-cha, seized power through a military coup. But the demonstrations have also targeted the monarchy and criticized the country’s powerful monarchy, which has long been taboo.
The protesters are demanding, among other things, that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha, who assumed power in the country after a coup in 2014, resign and that a new constitution be drawn up, in which the power of the king and the apparently inviolable monarchy is limited.
Rate the requirements as “unacceptable”
During the summer months, student-led groups staged demonstrations critical of the government almost daily. They have demanded more democracy, a rewritten constitution and new elections. The protesters are also demanding greater transparency in the accounts of the royal house, the abolition of the rigid royal legislation on defamation and that the king have no influence over politics.
Criticizing the royal family has long been taboo in Thailand, even among opposition figures.
Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha has called the demands “unacceptable” to a “majority” of Thais.
