Southern governor seeks ways to end protest
Nakhon Si Thammarat Governor Viroj Jivarungsan is seeking help from the province's influential persons in convincing the protesters to leave their post.
The governor told Thai PBS Tuesday morning that he has approached 1-2 influential figures. Asked whether he would seek a talk with provincial politicians who were alleged by Pheu Thai Party of backing up the rubber-growing protesters, he said those MPs have expressed their standpoint in Parliament and there is thus no need for a talk.
"It's up to them how they want the country to be," he simply said.
The governor last night imposed an order, barring people from entering the Kuan Nong Hong Intersection in Nakhon Si Thammarat's Cha-uat district.
He told the TV channel that negotiation with the protesters would proceed, though the protesters keep adding up the list of demands.
The protesters have demanded the government's intervention in rubber price, to lift it from about Bt90 per kg now to Bt120.
"Now, they demand that the prime minister attend law deliberation in Parliament and that the prime minister come down to the negotiation table. These demands come from nowhere," he told the channel.
