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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Thai poll body says ruling party must be dissolved By VIJAY JOSHI,Associated Press Writer - Tuesday, April 13 Send IM Story Print BANGKOK – Thailand's Election Commission ruled Monday that the ruling party be dissolved for alleged misuse of poll donations, in a potential victory for anti-government protesters who paraded slain comrades through Bangkok to press the prime minister to resign. The ruling, which would require Constitutional Court endorsement to take effect, came soon after Thailand's influential army chief appeared to back a key demand of the protesters, saying Parliament might need to be dissolved to resolve the country's violent political standoff. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who has remained defiant about not resigning, now faces unprecedented pressure, after the deadliest political clashes in nearly two decades on Saturday. The Oxford-educated prime minister was largely seen as having the backing of the powerful military, which has traditionally played an important role in the country's politics, and has not hesitated to step in with coups in times of political instability. But his control of security forces has increasingly been called into question over the past month as red-shirted protesters _ supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra _ repeatedly marched through the capital. On Saturday, soldiers and police failed to dislodge demonstrators, setting off clashes that killed 21. "If the issue cannot be resolved through political means, then Parliament dissolution seems to be a reasonable step," army chief Gen. Anupong Paochinda told reporters. "If people want a government of national unity, then by all means, go ahead. I just want peace to prevail." "Right now the circumstances dictate that a solution should be achieved through political means," he said. The Red Shirt protesters accused Abhisit's government of coming to power illegally with the help of the military after Thaksin was ousted in a 2006 coup amid allegations of massive corruption. In its ruling Monday, the Election Commission found the Democrat Party _ Thailand's oldest _ guilty of misusing campaign donations. No date was set for the Constitutional Court to hear the case. Raucous cheers erupted at a major protest site when a speaker announced the decision to his audience. "This is a victory for us. Our democracy heroes didn't die in vain," Veera Musikapong, a protest leader, said. The commission was ruling on a complaint filed by the Red Shirts that the Democrat Party received more than 258 million baht ($8 million) in donations from a private cement company, TPI Polene, without declaring it, as required by law and using it for election campaigning. The party was also accused of misusing 29 million baht ($800,000) from a political fund. The commission had scheduled the ruling for April 20, but announced it more than a week early without explanation. Still, the decision could offer a way out of the political deadlock between Abhisit's government and the Red Shirts. If the party is dissolved, new elections would have to be called, and the prime minister and all the top executives of the party would be barred from politics for five years. Unconfirmed reports in local newspapers have also said that Abhisit's coalition partners in the government want him to compromise with the protesters by dissolving Parliament in the next six months instead of by year's end, as he had earlier proposed. He must call elections by the end of 2011. With possible rifts opening in the government, the Red Shirts, named for their garb, struck a defiant tone Monday, parading coffins through the capital and saying they would not back down. "Our position is clear. We want the Parliament dissolved now. The only way to solve this political impasse is for Parliament to be dissolve and new elections called," said Weng Tojirakarn, a Red Shirt leader. The procession started at Phan Fa Bridge, located in the historic section of Bangkok that serves as one of the protesters' two bases. It then drove through the modern commercial heart of the city. "These are the heroes of democracy," another protest leader shouted from a loudspeaker mounted atop a truck in the motorcade. The Red Shirts are made up of mostly poor and rural supporters of Thaksin, whose populist policies eased the plight of many. They see Abhisit as a symbol _ and stooge _ of the ruling elite that they say orchestrated the 2006 military coup, which removed Thaksin from power. They also see the hand of this elite in the 2008 protests by the Yellow Shirts, whose demonstrations helped topple two elected, pro-Thaksin governments. In the subsequent vacuum, Parliament voted in Abhisit, with, the Red Shirts say, the connivance of the military. On Saturday, four soldiers and 17 civilians, including a Thomson Reuters cameraman, died in the clashes. Many of them were shot with live ammunition but it remains unclear who did the shooting. Each side accuses the other. Government spokesman Panitan Wattanyagorn said the military was under orders to fire live ammunition either into the air or in self-defense. Autopsies on 11 bodies found that five were shot in the head, three in the chest and stomach and one in the chest, said Dr. Jongjet Aowjenpong at the Police General Hospital. He said a 10th person had no gun shot wounds and was found to have died of respiratory failure. The last body autopsied was that of the Reuters cameraman, whose relatives asked that the results not be disclosed. The unrest has shaken the country's economy, and stocks closed 3.6 percent down on Monday. ___ Associated Press writers Kinan Suchaovanich, Thanyarat Doksone, Jocelyn Gecker, Grant Peck and Denis D. Gray contributed to this report. 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