Thida Thavornseth, the acting chair of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, is likely to be elected to be fully in charge of the organisation on Feb 15 after having served as acting chairperson, UDD core member Jatuporn Prompan said on Sunday.
Mr Jatuporn, a Pheu Thai Party list MP, dismissed as untrue speculation that many groups of UDD members were not satisfied with Ms Thida’s performance as acting chair of the UDD.
He said Ms Thida was likely to be elected as chairwoman of the UDD at a meeting at the Imperial Department Store at Lat Phrao on Wednesday after having served in the acting positition since after May 19, 2010 when the red shirts called of the protest at Ratchaprasong intersection.
Asked whether he would remain as a UDD committee member, Mr Jatuporn did not reply to the question. He said only that regardless of whether he would remain in that position or not he was still duty-bound to keep the organisation going.
On a meeting between Privy Council chairman Prem Tinsulanonda and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at the government’s gala dinner last Friday, Mr Jatuporn said it was clearly a starting point of the reconciliation process.
He said that at the planned assembly of the red shirts at Khao Yai Bonanza on Feb 25, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra would call-in on the video link system between 8pm-9pm.
Mr Jatuporn denied a report that the gathering would demand funding from Thaksin or the Pheu Thai Party, saying the UDD had enjoyed heart-to-heart relations with the former prime minister.
The gathering was intended only as an anti-coup symbol, he added.
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