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Thailand lifts state of emergency

Staff Correspondent

AFP, Bangkok
Thailand's acting prime minister lifted the slate of emergency in Bangkok Sunday as the ruling party met to choose a new candidate for premier, but the nation's political crisis looked set to dragon.
Somchai Wongsawat said tensions had eased in Bangkok since the emergency was imposed two weeks ago alter pro- and antigovernment protesters clashed in violence that left one person dead and dozens Injured.
"We have analysed that the situation is less serious and if we still maintain the state of emergency, it might damage the country," acting premier Somchai said after meeting the country s army chief and other officials.
Thousands of protesters have besieged the grounds of Government House in the-capital since last month to try to force the resignation of then prime minister Samak Sundaravej and his cabinet
Instead the Constitutional Court stripped Samak of his powers last week, ruling he had illegally accepted payments for hosting TV cooking shows.
Samak ended his bid on Friday to return to power as prime minister after a revolt within the ruling party torpedoed his re-election in parliament
The ruling People Power Party (PPP) and its coalition partners now plan to nominate a new candidate ahead of a vote in parliament on Wednesday by lawmakers for a prime minister.
The PPP was holding meetings about the nomination with its five coalition parties on Sunday, said Sompong Amornviwat, deputy leader of the PPP and one of the candidates for prime minister.
Two other candidates are codeputy PPP leader Somchai Wongsawat and secretary-general Surapong Suebwonglee.
After a Sunday afternoon meeting with two coalition partners, the Pan Dian and Pracharaj parties, Somchai told reporters they had agreed to support whoever PPP chose as candidate.
"The parties said it is PPP’s right to nominate the candidate for the prime minister position, ” he said.
But any three of the candidates would face an uphill task to resolve Thailand's political upheaval, with demonstrators still squatting outside Government House, declaring they will stay as long as the PPP remains in charge.
"We don't accept those three.This government has damaged the country too much," ChamlongSrimuang, one of the protest leaders, told reporters Sunday.
The demonstrators, representing Thailand's traditional elite, claim that Samak and the three candidates to replace him are proxies for ousted premier and billionaire businessman Thaksin Shinawatra.
The protest group, which calls itself the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), also spearheaded Erotests against Thaksin in 2006, ‘acting to the military' coup that toppled him.
Thaksin now lives in exile in Britain to evade corruption charges, which he says are politically motivated.