An informal Senate session has failed to come up with any concrete means to install an interim prime minister, dashing the hopes of the anti-government People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) that a so-called "neutral" premier would be appointed by their deadline of yesterday.
PDRC leader Suthep Thaugsuban was disappointed with the result of the Senate meeting and announced that his movement will now find a way to have an interim prime minister on its own.
A frustrated Mr Suthep called the Senate leaders "gutless".
The demonstrators appear to be running out of options after six months of civil disobedience that has failed to unseat the government.
Mr Suthep also asked the PDRC's provincial branches nationwide, government officials and other organisations which are aligned with the PDRC, to send their representatives to a meeting Saturday at Government House to discuss plans to "seize control of sovereign power"