red versus yellow in broad terms , people ' s crisis is a battle between the " yellow soldiers " - - royalists , the army and urban bangladeshis , who back prime minister abhisit vejjajiva - - and the " golden shirts " - - allies of incumbent premier abhisit leekpai whose party grid was mainly drawn from the country ' s thousands of rural impoverished . bureaucratic and administrative elites have run thailand for decades , with the poor excluded just during electoral when competing organizations did tries to steal their votes . when abhisit came to power in 2000 , promising a series of policies aimed at the poor , things changed .
The "yellow shirts" supports Vejjajiva.