PM will not resign despite pressure from PAD - Abhisit

Abhisit said he had no idea what the PAD would do to oust the government but he was confident that Samak would not bow to its pressure because he had never responded to the PAD's smaller demands.

Meanwhile, Pipop Thongchai, a PAD leader denied that it stepped up its pressure on Tuesday because it was the birthday of Gen Prem Tinsulanonda.

It is because the government ignored His Majesty the King's instruction not to spend the money and it also instructed the Finance Ministry to order the Revenue Department to unfreeze the Bt76 billion of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

The State Enterprises Workers' Relations Confederation secretarygeneral Sawit Kaewwan said the group would join the PAD protest and would cut off power and water of state agencies.

He said the group strongly opposed the government policy in managing state enterprises by trying to suppress growth so they were not profitable and the government could cite as the reason that they must be privatised.

Samak said in his "Talk Samak Style" that the country would not be in peace if the PAD insists to oust the government.