The Prime Minister just dissolved parliament as the protests which enjoyed a slight hiatus due to some sort of royal holiday have returned in force.
The opposition loses every time at the ballot box so the prime minister's offer to hold elections isn't what they are looking for.
The country is roughly divided between the poor and rural and the middle and upper classes. Poor is red colored and the middle class urban types are yellow, in the color scheme of things. I've forgotten which ones call themselves the Democracy party.
So far things are decidedly non violent, but I don't see what the end game is. One party wants power and they can not get it democratically. I guess the army will decide. Bear in mind, the yellows are Royalists and they still believe in the King being a godlike figure.Oh, and the King is alive as he made an appearance over the holidays, no word on whether he spoke or moved. He is very old.
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