The protesters have vowed to completely block Bangkok from January 13 new episode of a crisis that has lasted more than two months and has already killed eight people .
They planned to install stages across the city, blocking major intersections to prevent officials go to work and turn off the water and electricity in government buildings and the homes of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and his ministers .
"This is our first step this year to give the kickoff of the loop ," said Anchalee Paireerak , a spokesman for the movement.
The " Thaksin system "
Opponents of the government , which brought together more than 150,000 people until a day before a break for New Year, Yingluck accused of being a puppet of her brother Thaksin , they hate and want to get rid of that they call the " Thaksin system."
The former prime minister ousted in a coup in 2006, despite his exile remains the most loved and most hated character of the kingdom , dividing the country between between rural masses and urban poor North and Northeast, who worship and the Bangkok elite who see him as a threat to the monarchy.
To try to defuse the political crisis, Yingluck , in power since the summer of 2011 , dissolved the parliament and called for February 2 early elections that his party favorite.
But the main opposition party , the Democratic Party , announced its boycott of the poll and the protesters promised to prevent the vote. They have already prevent the registration of candidates in several southern provinces, bastions Democrats .
The demonstrators, heterogeneous alliance of elites of Bangkok, ultra- royalists or rubber planters southern groups , want to replace the government with a " People's Council " unelected .
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