Abhisit Vejjajiva
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"Abhisit Vejjajiva"; International Phonetic Alphabet/IPA: ; born 3 August 1964) is a Thai politician who was the List of Prime Ministers of Thailand/27th Prime Minister of Thailand/Prime Minister of Thailand from 2008 to 2011 and is the current leader of the Democrat Party (Thailand)/Democrat Party. As leader of the second largest party in the House of Representatives of Thailand/House of Representatives, he was also Leader of the Opposition (Thailand)/Leader of the Opposition – a position he held from December 2008 until his party's en masse resignation from the House on 8 December 2013. That same month, he was formally charged with murder resulting from a crackdown on demonstrators in 2010 that killed 90 people.

Born in England, Abhisit attended Eton College and earned bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Oxford. He was elected to the National Assembly of Thailand/Parliament of Thailand at age 27, and promoted to Democrat Party leader in 2005, after his predecessor resigned following the party's defeat in the Thailand 2005 general election/2005 general election.

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We want to give the prime minister ... a chance to come to a dialogue with all other political parties to set a firm commitment to political reform, and we'll await his response.

It's too late. It's too late.

We're not calling anything as yet.

From the point of view of the people in the streets, they are going ahead with their protests whether we contest the elections or not. So it's between him and the people on the streets.

The Democrat party had asked me to consult with these two parties over the issue and this evening we decided that each party go back to consider it again before giving their answers tomorrow.

We do not support a coup. We have always operated within the means of the Constitution.

The only way out of the current crisis is to amend the Constitution.

The best solution for the current political crisis is to amend the constitution to pave the way for political reform.

The current political tension is very serious.... We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.