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Abhisit said the economy should grow more than 4 percent this year and around 4.5 percent is achievable. Credit: Reuters/Sukree Sukplang BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Friday played down the threat of violence at upcoming protests seen as a showdown with the government but said the country was still divided and not ready for a popular vote. World Abhisit, who took office in December 2008 in the middle of an economic slump and a polarizing political crisis, has faced mounting pressure to dissolve parliament by anti-government protesters who say his rise to power was illegitimate. Abhisit gave a strong vote of confidence in the economic recovery and said growth of around 4.5 percent this year was achievable, up from a previous estimate of 3.5 percent. He told a Reuters forum that many "red shirt" supporters of exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra had genuine grievances but some were still bent on violence, so the climate was not right for parliamentary elections. But he added that the threat of unrest that has unsettled financial markets in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy had been exaggerated and rumors of an imminent military coup had been started to create an impression of chaos. "On the whole, I think the picture painted by the media is probably more alarmist than the actual situation," he said. But the threat still remained and an election at this time would only deepen the crisis, he added. NO ELECTION YET "I don't believe an election will solve the crisis," he said. "The people engaged in all these political movements aren't really interested in elections as much as they are in other issues." 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"Obviously we have no intention of pulling back stimulus prematurely. We will closely watch economic numbers and whether the private sector is ready to pick up the role of leading the economy onto a stronger recovery path," he said. Abhisit also said a "road map" had been outlined toward lifting a court-imposed freeze on over $8 billion of projects at the country's biggest industrial estate over environmental and health breaches -- a case that has angered foreign investors. He said he was confident the stalled projects at the Map Ta Phut industrial estate -- the world's eighth-largest petrochemical hub -- could be restarted in six to nine months. With an assistant governor of the central bank in attendance, Abhisit refused to be drawn on when interest rates might go up, saying it was premature to say what would happen two or three quarters ahead. "I don't want them to overreact," he said, with a smile. 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