Defiant protesters cut power supply to the national police headquarters, ignoring a plea by beleaguered PM Yingluck Shinawatra to end their anti-Government rallies and negotiate after she emerged unscathed from a no-confidence debate.
Buoyed by her victory in Parliament, she considered an emergency decree to combat the defiance of thousands of protesters occupying ministries and Government offices since Sunday in the biggest mass rallies in three years.
Protesters snapped electricity supply to the national police headquarters, calling on the Government to step down and replace it with an unelected “people’s council” — a demand Yingluck said was impossible under the constitution.