Protesters disperse protest at Parliament

Hundreds of protesters who blocked the Finance Ministry and City Police Bureau also dispersed and travelled to join their comrades at Don Muang Airport.

Earlier thousands of the protesters besieged the Parliament on Monday morning, forcing House Speaker Chai Chidchob to cancel a joint parliamentary session scheduled to start at 9.30am.

At about 12.30pm, PAD's co-leader Somsak Kosaisuk said on a temporary stage in front of the Parliament that the protesters have achieved in blocking a parliamentary meeting which will pave the way for ex-Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to return to power.

Therefore, it would be useless for them to stay on at the Parliament because no one was there. Somsak said the protesters would return to the Parliament whenever the meeting on the issue would resume.

Somsak said the protesters should move on to the temporary government seat at Don Muang Airport where the Somchai cabinet was scheduled to meet.

"Wherever they go, we will follow suit to chase them," he said.