After December 2008. The Democrat Party headed a coalition government. The party has a royalist heritage, and for the last two decades it has positioned itself as the party of the urban middle class the government that came to power in 2008 relied heavily on military support. The prime minister lived inside an army camp for a long period in 2010. In April 2009 and again in May 2010, large military operations dispersed protests demanding a new election. The government engaged in suppression of the media on a scale not seen since the military era, with pro-Red-Shirt newspapers closed, radio stations threatened, the Red TV occasionally disrupted, thousands of websites blocked, and an unprecedented number of cases under the lese majeste law