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Thai security officials said they will arrest protest leaders seeking to install an appointed prime minister as rising tensions threaten to spark fresh clashes between supporters and opponents of the government.

We ask people to leave protest sites and warn your children and family members to stay away for their own safety, Tarit Pengdit, the director-general of the Department of Special Investigation, said yesterday in Bangkok.

Thousands of pro-government supporters held a rally on Bangkoks outskirts at the weekend to protest last weeks ouster of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra by the Constitutional Court. Inside the capital, anti-government groups called on lawmakers to install a peoples council that would rewrite electoral laws to keep Yinglucks family out of politics.

Appointing an unelected prime minister is not only against the law, it may also spark violence, Tarit said. It will also anger the opposing group, which may escalate into clashes and eventually turn into a civil war.

The Peoples Democratic Reform Committee, led by former opposition politician Suthep Thaugsuban, has staged a six-month street campaign targeting allies of Thaksin Shinawatra, Yinglucks brother who was deposed in a 2006 coup. They accuse the Shinawatras of crony capitalism and using populist policies to secure the support of rural voters.

A Thai anti-government protester waves a large national flag as Thai riot-policemen stand guard at the entrance of a television station during an anti-government rally in Bangkok on May 9, 2014. Close

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A Thai anti-government protester waves a large national flag as Thai riot-policemen stand guard at the entrance of a television station during an anti-government rally in Bangkok on May 9, 2014.

Yingluck was forced to step down May 7 after being found guilty of abuse of power, and her Pheu Thai Party selected Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan to hold on as acting premier until an election tentatively scheduled for July 20. Thaksin-allied parties have won the past five polls, while the main opposition Democrat Party, which is aligned with the anti-government demonstrators, hasnt won a vote in more than two decades.

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