Tearful Thai PM urges protesters to take part in election

By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) – Her eyes welling with tears, Thai Top Minister Yingluck Shinawatra pleaded on Tuesday for anti-executive demonstrators to clear the streets and strengthen a snap election, but defiant protest leaders called for her to step down inside 24 hours. After weeks of every now and then violent boulevard rallies, protesters rejected her call on Monday for a basic election and mentioned she should get replaced with the aid of an unelected "folks's council", a thought that has stoked situation Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy could abandon the democratic process. Yingluck stated she would continue her obligations as caretaker high minister until the election, which is ready for February 2. Yingluck, a 46-yr-previous former businesswoman, had no political experience ahead of coming into a 2011 election that she received through a landslide, generally on the back of rural fortify.