Sister of Thaksin is the candidate of the opposition Thai PM (AFP)

BANGKOK (AFP) - the youngest sister of the fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra said Monday that she would be standing as a candidate of the Party of the main opposition to Prime Minister in the July elections.

Appointment of Yingluck Shinawatra by the Puea Thai Party made her the first woman to run for high Government of the Thailand and confirms the centrality of Thaksin in the political landscape of the Kingdom.

"I am ready to fight the rules and request the opportunity to prove myself." Ask your confidence that you used to trust my brother, "she told a party meeting in Bangkok, attended by journalists."

"I will use my femininity to collaborate fully for our country."

Well that he lives abroad to escape a sentence of imprisonment for graft, Thaksin - ousted in a coup of State 2006 - is widely regarded as the leader of de facto Puea Thai Party, a view underscored by the appointment of sister politically inexperienced.

Thaksin is welcomed by a large number of rural and working-class Thai for its populist policies for the masses but hated by the elite based in Bangkok, which sees as corrupt, authoritarian and a threat to the monarchy, venerated.

The election of July 3 will prepare his sister against his arch-foe, current Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of the Democratic Party-backed elite, in what should be a closely fought battle.

"Five years after the coup of there is a lot of missing persons still my brother and his policies." "I feel my family is indebted to the people and which is a key factor in my decision", she said.

At 43, the mother of one and prestigious business woman is three years younger than his rival Abhisit and - the youngest of the siblings Shinawatra nine - junior Thaksin of 18 years.

While it should attract the support of his loyalists in the North and Northeast, analysts say it could struggle to call for a broader base among those more skeptical about his controversial brother for support.

Related parties Thaksin won the most seats in the last four elections, but the decisions of the Court reversed the results of two recent polls, held after the former Tycoon was forced from power.

Puea Thai has broad support among the largely rural red shirts and the working class, whose anti-Government mass rallies in the capital of the year has led to the worst political unrest in Thailand for decades.

The Reds called snap polls to oust Abhisit, who they accuse of being a puppet non-elected of the army and the establishment as it assumed his functions in a parliamentary vote 2008 after a court has launched the previous Government.

One year on an armed repression against the protests of the Reds, in which more than 90 people have been killed in clashes between demonstrators and the armed forces, Thailand remains deeply divided.

Party of the educated at Oxford, oldest Abhisit, the Thailand receives most of its support of Bangkok and the South, but he did not win a general election in almost two decades.

Observers fear campaign that could see more violence after a Thai legislator Puea, Pracha Prasopdee, was killed in an attack last week that the Government seemed be politically motivated.

ABHISIT said he had appointed the head of the national police to ensure the safety of all parliamentary candidates — before polls, Think Tank International Crisis Group warned last month might bring fresh unrest.

Thursday, the red shirts plan to organize a demonstration in the capital to mark the first anniversary of the assault of the army on their basis of protest, which dispersed the rally.

In an interview published Monday in the Bangkok Post daily, Thaksin said Puea Thai and especially his followers of the red shirt, had suffered most from disorders of the country but he "forgive and forget".

"After the election, after Puea Thai WINS, it must be clear that no there is no retribution taken," he was quoted saying.

The Moroccan forces disperse protest by the opposition

RABAT - Moroccan forces used truncheons to disperse a demonstration was on the southern outskirts of the capital of the Kingdom Rabat on Sunday, several injured, said a Reuters journalist on the scene.

Dozens of demonstrators belonging to the anti-Government movement February 20 tried to organize a picnic of protest from what they claim is a secret government detention centre in the region of Temara, where are are Islamists.

The Government denies that it runs secret detention centres. She later obtained permission for the Attorney General and the national Council of human rights to inspect the headquarters of the domestic intelligence service, said of the MAP news agency.

Police hunted riot the demonstrators before the rally could begin, beating some with long rubber truncheons. Police said that no arrests were made.

At an event later in the outskirts of Rabat, security forces have beaten into a coma one of the founders of the movement on 20 February, Osama ElKhlifi, a doctor and militant said. No independent verification of the report was immediately available.

February 20 is related to the reform demonstrations and uprisings this year elsewhere in the Arab world.

"It is the latest in a series of violent interventions by the security forces, which shows that the authorities are no longer tolerate the Group peaceful demonstrations," said Nizar Benmate of the movement.

Spokesman for the head of Government, Khalid Naciri said by the radio station Atlantic soldier who protest Temara was interrupted because he had been prohibited.

He denied there was a secret detention centre, in the area saying that the building of the finger by the demonstrators was a local government administrative office.

DENIAL OF GOVERNMENT

Moroccan officials deny the allegations made by opposition groups and some human rights activists that they run secret detention centres and to say to all detainees are treated in strict accordance with the law.

Human rights activists say Islamic militant political and others have been held and tortured at the building of Temara.

The map did not say when the visit of inspection of Temara would take place. King Mohammed has created the Council of the rights of man in March in protests.

The Agency said about 100 "extremists" blocked a road in the city of the North of Tangier. He reported an incident similar to FEZ where he said that some protesters method knives and flags of al-Qaeda. No there was no independent confirmation of the reports.

Some 50,000 people gathered in the evening for a pro-reform rally in Casablanca, said organizers. Independent sources put the number at about 15,000.

The Union of the national press criticized the authorities for rough treatment of journalists to the protest of Temara. Security forces beat two journalists, two other manhandled and confiscated some equipment, a Reuters witness said.

The College in Parliament: have Quebec voters put in place the Opposition of the Canada to failure?

Opposition of the Canada policy took a hard left turn, with bizarre consequences. The fourth general election in just seven years has seen Canadians respond to conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper for political stability appeal referring him to the power with the Government of the majority that has eluded him already. Real surprise of the election, however, was the fact that labour's new Democratic Party (NDP) led by Salty Jack Layton ranked second for the first time - with the strong support of francophone Quebec voters normally support the separatist Bloc Québécois.

But the new crop of legislators, the NDP will bring to Parliament are hardly conventional political hacks. They include nine students and recent graduates, a former candidate of the Party of the community and a woman who spent part of his campaign on holiday in sunny Las Vegas. (See a profile of Prime Minister Stephen Harper).

Pierre-Luc Dusseault for the NDP, a student 19 years at the University of Sherbrooke, became the youngest Member ever elected to the Parliament of Canada. Need to give up his summer job at a golf course to take his duties with a salary of $leaving and staff. Before embarking on a federal political career, the biggest item on the curriculum vitae of Dessault may have been representing his high school swim team in the regional finals.

The Canada is something else in progress or has lost its marbles?

Everyone in the Canada think this is a bad idea electing beginners who may otherwise be landing jobs at Starbucks or the print service. Their victory was a sign that some candidates of this generation of social media is very effective Facebook and Twitter campaigns eclipsed traditional campaign work.

Mathieu Ravignat, the former candidate of the Party of the community and with the medieval sword Ottawa Guild Executive, toppled a champion of policy to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon by over 8,000 votes. Alexandrine Latendresse, a student of Linguistics University Laval aged 26 years whose Facebook page reveals a weakness for ice vodka and procrastination, also ousted a Cabinet session. (See Quebec in the top ten nations aspiring).

"Perhaps it is time for what happened," explains Derek Leebosh with Toronto-based Environics Research Group, a company specialized in opinion polls. "The Parliament should reflect the population of the Canada not a club for the old fuddy duddies."

He attributes the NDP unprescedented victory in Quebec, where he won 58 of 75 seats, a desire to suddenly of radical change. Voters had grown frustrated by the inability of the Bloc Québécois to secure any policy victories with his independence seeking shrill agenda for the French territory. By choosing an alternative, they skip on the Conservatives and the Liberals, the traditional parties of the Canada.

But he has been head of the NDP Layton, who, in the last days of his campaign, with questions to the bare subject of discovery by the Toronto police to a massage parlor Chinatown years earlier, which proved to be unstoppable. The affable cancer survivor marked the point after point against PM Harper and Harvard professor-turned-Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff in two national debates. He seduces the québécois with his popular style, wielding a big smile and a cane during an appearance recent hip surgery on a French popular talk-show.

The campaign in early April, support for the NDP in Quebec amounted to 21% of the block 34%, according to the firm Environics for interrogation. Three weeks later, these figures had overthrown, with the NDP to 41% of the 28% block - thanks in large part to the performance of Layton in the eyes of the public. (See the thinker of Harvard, changing of the Canadian political scene).

Many voters in Quebec, said that they voted NDP to federalism one last chance, after what they consider that the failure of other national parties. But what chance the new official opposition meet traditional recriminations of Quebec - which include the call for autonomy on language policy and immigration - while relying on a strong contingent of MPs with training wheels?

It is fair to say that many NDP candidates was not expected to win seats, and they face a steep learning curve that will include language courses for unilingual Anglophones representing French only constituencies.

"The NDP will need to turn his mind to how it can consolidate support in Quebec, without alienating supporters in the rest of the country" said Robert Drummond, Professor of political science and public policy at York University in Toronto.

That balancing act could well prove to cause the loss of the NDP to take on the role of the official opposition. Cast of inexperienced deputies more used to write reviews that they are to the period of the questions on the Hill, and it is easy to imagine Quebec voters again feeling excluded out in Ottawa. That could lead to another referendum on independence for Quebec in four years, in which separatists say that Ottawa has proved unable to do. But before this rendezvous with history, at least more recent members of the Canada will have a few years working on their French.

Yemeni opposition rejects Saleh position on delivery

SANAA- the Friday Yemen opposition has rejected the position of President Ali Abdullah Saleh on a revised plan for the Gulf to relieve him of the power, as gathered for mass demonstrations against him and for the security forces.

The ruling party, said Thursday night that Saleh would not sign the agreement before the end of the representatives of the ruling party and the opposition had signed. Leader of the opposition Sultan Atwani said Reuters Friday his coalition would not accept.

The plan proposed by the Gulf Cooperation Council envisages Saleh resign 30 days after the signing of the agreement in the hope that this will end three bitter months of protests demanding his resignation, which at least 130 people were killed.

But the opposition suspicious Saleh, a political survivor cunning for more than 30 years and until now a key ally of the United States and Saudi Arabia in the fight against al-Qaida.

"Us won't accept unless the President sign as a party to the agreement, and we call the CCG and the United States and the European Union to put pressure on Saleh to sign the initiative", said Atwani.

Saleh appeared to sign the agreement, which guarantees him and his family immunity and aid prosecutions, but last week refused to put his name to the transaction in his capacity as President.

The proposed GCC plan amended Thursday in which 15 representatives of the party in power and the political opposition would ink the plan in Sana'a, only Saleh and the head of the opposition, but in vain.

ARABS WANT CALM YEMEN

A GCC source has said the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Gulf Reuters may try to meet in Riyadh Sunday to discuss the political crisis of the Yemen.

Arab Gulf States including oil giant Saudi Arabia, close to the Yemen, are eager to see peace return to the Yemen, a poor state who have difficulties to handle internal rebellions and home to the branch of the Arabian Peninsula active al-Qaeda.

But demonstrators anti-Saleh, berserk on corruption and poverty, eager to see Saleh accountable and fearing to be sold by politicians of the opposition, are increasingly impatient at the delay.

Large crowds were expected to turn out after prayers Friday, for and against the Government, and the security forces took up positions in the streets of the capital Sanaa Thursday evening. Residents, said that they had heard shots.

There are also signs Saleh and his party more go away from the proposal of the CCG in insisting protests must stop in the Covenant to move, a move likely to irritate the opposition and infuriate protest camps in Sana'a, Taiz and elsewhere.

An official of the ruling party, "success of the initiative requires that both parties to stop all elements that could cause of policies or security tensions... that will necessarily include end of sit-ins and protests and acts of sabotage," said Thursday.

Meanwhile Saudi State GCC Secretary General Abdullatif al-Zayani said that he was "optimistic about the achievement of the objective in the near future", the news agency reported.

"The disagreements on the procedures for the signing of the agreement will be resolved through consultations between the Council of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the GCC and the Secretary General of the GCC," he was quoted as saying.

Deadly day of the Ugandan riots following opposition leader stop (The Christian Science Monitor)

Kampala, Uganda - sitting outside his shop laundry in a quiet suburb, usually the capital of Uganda, Kampala, David Ssentongo points to slow ash locals tires burned in protest and rage.

"People are angry," says Mr. Ssentongo. "They are angry because of the way in which the presidential candidate Dr Kizza Besigye was arrested yesterday." But they are also angry because prices are increasing, because they cannot afford to take the bus to work, because they can not buy milk for their children. ?

Friday, Kampala awakened to a day of rioting. Markets downtown to the suburbs, demonstrators set up roadblocks made of rubble and burning tires and the police and the army fired live ammunition at demonstrators.

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In early evening, at least two people had been killed by bullet and 143 were hospitalized, including a Ugandan child 2 years old with bullet wounds, said the Red Cross. The Minister of Internal Affairs has developed the number of order 360.

The main spark for the riots was the brutal arrest of Dr Besigye, s€ ? s main opposition leader. For the past three weeks, Besigye and other opposition leaders attempted to walk to work in protest against the increase in the cost of living. In March, inflation on food increased nearly 30% and fuel at more than 10 per cent.

Police, who have banned all demonstrations, arrested Besigye three times, he trapped for six days and was allegedly shot in the finger with a rubber bullet.

On Thursday, the reaction of the authoritarian Government became even more brutal. After police prevented him from walking, Besigye got in his car and led to Kampala. The first police has shown, stopping the car of the Besigye at a roundabout and refrained from tear gas at crowds of fire growth.

But as it appeared the Besigye protest could be petering out, plainclothes police arrived, shattered the Windows of his vehicle and he sprayed with tear gas before him drag in a police van. When Besigye appeared before the tribunal later this day there, he was unable to see. A doctor who saw him said that it is too early to say if the damage was permanent. Friday evening, Besigye flew to Nairobi to receive medical treatment for injuries, he received the police Thursday.

Analysts say the violence on Friday and the reaction of the Government will only exacerbate the public anger over rising prices and the repression of the opposition.

"The rejection by the way the Government handled Besigye sweeps the Board of Directors," said Frederick Golooba-Mutebi, political analyst at the University of Makerere in Kampala.

In February Besigye lost the President incumbent Yoweri Museveni for the third consecutive time. Besigye immediately rejected the results, calling the election a "sham" and seeking the mass protests.

But nothing happened, and many began to write political obituaries of the Besigye. Now, analysts say, the brutal treatment he received made him relevant again.

"Museveni has now succeeded in stimulating support so Besigye, who had become marginal after the elections," said Mr. Golooba-Mutebi.

With the protests draw discontent over rising fuel prices and perceived government inaction and corruption, the situation remains tense. The Kenya Government recently cut, taxes on fuels to suppress popular discontent, Museveni has so far not acted and dismissed demonstrations as "idiot".

"It is because of what happens to Besigye, due to rising prices and the arrogant reaction of the Government to any person who complains," said Golooba-Mutebi. "The situation is much worse that the Government is admitting."

Standing outside his store of laundry, Ssentongo said that the reaction of the Government of stirring more anger and this turmoil is likely to continue. "Prices are only going higher and growth of anger", said Ssentongo. "This will end quickly."