Key events on 9 December 2013
           In the evening, the PDRC’s Secretary-General made a public announcement demanding the entire Cabinet to immediately relinquish administrative power after the dissolution of the House of Representatives. The PDRC’s Secretary-General also vowed to create a "People's Council" to reshape the country.

Key events on 10 December 2013
           During the press briefing after the Cabinet’s meeting, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra stated that the Government had listened all along to the demands of the protesters and that she had backed down to the point where she did not know how to back down any further. The Prime Minister also urged protesters to end their rallies and to go to the polls as a means to uphold democracy.

           Justice Minister Chaikasem Nitisiri, in his capacity as head of CAPO’s working group on legal affairs, made a televised announcement that, after a consultation between government agencies including the Council of State, the Cabinet could not legally leave office before the election was complete in accordance with Section 181 of the Constitution.

           The PDRC, however, repeated its demand that the Prime Minister and the Cabinet step down. The PDRC Secretary-General reiterated his call for the protesters to continue demonstrating.

            At night, the PDRC Secretary-General made an announcement that since the Prime Minister had ignored the PDRC's order, the committee had issued an additional order that protesters demonstrate peacefully against members of the Shinawatra family and the Cabinet. The PDRC also urged the police to take legal action against the Prime Minister for the alleged act of insurrection by failing to recognize the Constitutional Court’s verdict on the proposed Constitution Amendment Bill.

             A group of Thai academicians, intellectuals, writers, civil servants, and ordinary people, known collectively as the Assembly for the Defense of Democracy (AFDD), publicly called for all sides to respect the Constitution and democratic process. The AFDD also stated that the PDRC’s proposed People’s Council had no legal basis within the framework of the Constitution.

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