Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will not dissolve the House of Representatives since it is seen that the House dissolution will not be able to bridge a gap among those who have a different political view, a senior official said Thursday.
Many different groups in the Thai society have demanded the Abhisit-led government to dissolve the House after the country's political crisis ended with two deaths and over 100 injured people in the scattered-anti-government rallies.
The Prime Minister has viewed that the House dissolution will, moreover, cause strong political confrontation, the website by Thai-language newspaper Matichon quoted deputy Prime Minister's secretary-general Panitan Wattanayagorn as saying.
"The domestic political situation might be much chaos (if the government dissolves the House and hold a new general election)," said Panitan.
Currently, Prime Minister Abhisit wants to see the country's political reform, initiated earlier, to continue, said Panitan.
In a related development, permanent-secretary of the Prime Minister's Office, Nattee Premrassam disclosed the government plans to hold a special cabinet meeting at the Government House on Friday, scheduled at 9.00 a.m. local time.
On Wednesday Panitan said the special meeting would discuss several key issues, which will include the recent political chaos in capital Bangkok, the emergency decree in the country's unrest deep South, and the government's borrowing plan to boost the sluggish economy.
Meanwhile, the Matichon's website also reported quoting unnamed sources that the government's emergency tackling command center will propose the special cabinet meeting to consider to lift a state of emergency, which has been imposed in Bangkok and some districts in five nearby provinces since April 12 due to the political chaos.
As the overall situation has been under control, so it is possible that the prime minister and the meeting's participants will decide to lift the state of emergency, said the website.
(Xinhua News Agency April 16, 2009)
