The government rejected his proposal as unconstitutional. It must have been hard for them to see how Mr Abhisit’s bid to dictate democracy differed from the ideas of the coup-mongering Mr Suthep, an ex-Democrat MP who is leading the street protests. Mr Suthep’s movement has been boxed into a public park in Bangkok since March. On May 4th village headmen organised against Mr Suthep and descended on the capital, forcing him to call off his six-month long siege of the interior ministry. Nevertheless, he issued another call, his ninth, for a “final battle” to rid the kingdom of evils, i.e. to topple the Shinawatra-led government. - See more at: http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2014/05/future-thailands-elite#sthash.SPjKAe0k.dpuf