BANGKOK, May 6 (UPI) -- Members of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva's party approved his plan Thursday to dissolve Parliament and hold an early election, officials said.
The Democrat Party's members of Parliament held a meeting to discuss the road map Abhisit hopes will end weeks of deadly political violence, the Bangkok Post reported. Abhisit has proposed a Nov. 14 election with Parliament dissolved several weeks before that date.
Members of the United Front for Democracy and Against Dictatorship or UDD, the red-shirted group now occupying an encampment in Bangkok, have said they will not disband without a firm date for parliamentary dissolution, the BBC reports. Abhisit has said he will not negotiate with them.
Col. Sansern Kaewkamnerd, an Army spokesman, said force could still be used against the red shirts.
"The message that the prime minister has sent out regarding a five-step road-map is for everyone in the country -- not just for the red-shirts," Sansern said.
Another group, the People's Alliance for Democracy or yellow shirts, accused the prime minister of making a secret compact with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, supported by the red shirts.
"The government should fully enforce the law against them and not negotiate or reconcile with these terrorists of a new Thai state," the group said in a statement.
