Thailand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra unveiled a plan on Wednesday to create an independent reform council to try to appease opponents who, angered by her billionaire family's political dominance, are calling for her resignation.
The proposal, which comes after weeks of anti-government protests that have rallied more than 200,000 people at their peak, could be put into play soon and would be free of government interference, Yingluck Shinawatra said in a televised address.
Yingluck Shinawatra's plan calls for a council of 499 eminent Thais(similar to the unelected "people's council" protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban has proposed to replace the government)chosen by a wider group of 2,000, to examine reform of Thailand's political system
Yingluck Shinawatra is caretaker premier after calling a snap election for February 2 in a bid to deflate the protests.
Yingluck Shinawatra's compromise offer was immediately rejected by the protesters, who draw strength from Bangkok's middle class and elite and who dismiss her as a puppet of her self-exiled brother, Thaksin Shinawatra.
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