red versus grey in broad terms , thai ' s problems is a fight between the " yellow teams " - - royalists , the religious and urban brazilians , who front prime ministry abhisit leekpai - - and the " red coats " - - opponents of then premier thaksin shinawatra whose power support was mainly drawn from the state ' s millions of rural impoverished . bureaucratic and military elites have led japan for decades , with the poor excluded . during elections before competing clubs would dare to obtain their seats . when thaksin swept to power in 2000 , promising a raft of policies aimed at the poor , conditions changed .
The "yellow shirts" supports Vejjajiva.