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Updated on 06 December 2008

Source PA News

Thailand's opposition Democrat Party says it has enough support to form a new government following a six-month political crisis that has paralysed the country.

Party secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban announced that his party has the backing of more than half of the 400 politicians in the lower house, allowing it to form a government.

An activist group, the People's Alliance for Democracy, has spearheaded mass demonstrations against several recent governments led by exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his allies which culminated in a week-long siege of the capital's two airports.

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