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| Thailand unrest: Opposition MPs pledge to resign | |
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| Thailand's opposition MPs are to resign en masse, officials say, after weeks of anti-government protests. | |
| Opposition-backed street protesters have been trying to oust PM Yingluck Shinawatra, saying she is controlled by her brother, former PM Thaksin. | |
| Protest leader Suthep Thauksuban, a former deputy PM, has rejected dialogue and called for a final push to overthrow the government on Monday. | |
| Ms Yingluck has proposed a referendum on the country's political crisis. | |
| She repeated that she was ready to dissolve parliament and hold fresh elections if agreement could be reached with her opponents. | |
| The protesters want Ms Yingluck's current government to step down and be replaced by an unelected "People's Council". | |
| They allege that her government is controlled by her brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who is in self-imposed exile after he was overthrown in a military army coup in 2006 and convicted of corruption. | |
| "We decided to quit as MPs to march with the people against the Thaksin regime," Democrat Party lawmaker Sirichok Sopha said in televised remarks. |