Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, center top, waves to supporters after a court ruling at his residence in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008. Thailand's Constitutional Court has dissolved the three biggest parties in the ruling coalition and banned Prime Minister Somchai along with top party executives from politics for five years.(AP Photo/Wichai Tapriew)
From Yahoo News/AP:
BANGKOK, Thailand – A court dissolved Thailand's top three ruling parties for electoral fraud Tuesday and temporarily banned the prime minister from politics, bringing down a government that has faced months of strident protests seeking its ouster.
The Constitutional Court ruling set the stage for thousands of protesters to end their weeklong siege of the country's two main airports, but also raised fears of retaliatory violence by supporters of the government, which could sink the country deeper into crisis and cripple its economy.
The leader of a group of anti-government protesters in Thailand says the weeklong siege of Bangkok's airports will end Wednesday morning.
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My Comment: New elections are probably going to produce the same results. I do not see a remedy in this confrontation as long as the political parties are in open conflict with each other.