Thai Prime Minister faces no-confidence vote Ms Yingluck's Pheu Thai party won an overwhelming majority in elections in July 2011, meaning there is little chance of Wednesday's no-confidence vote succeeding. Yet, coming after the Protect Siam group had promised to "topple" the government, the timing of the debate is significant. It demonstrates that the Democrat Party and the alliance of conservative, pro-royalist groups who make up Thailand's opposition have no intention of stopping their assault on Ms Yingluck. "They can't get rid of Pheu Thai through democratic means, so they are trying technical means," Professor Pitch Pongsawat, a professor of political science at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University, told the Daily Telegraph. They are sending signals to independent organisations that have the judicial power to pressure the government. The failure of Saturday's protests indicates there is little appetite in Thailand for another coup. Protect Siam had called for one million people to attend the demonstration, leading 17,000 police to be deployed in central Bangkok. Yet only an estimated 20,000 protesters turned out. 82 people were injured in clashes with the police, who fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators trying to march on government house.