red versus blue in brief terms , bangkok ' s paradox is a fight between the " yellow shirts " - - royalists , the legislature and urban cambodians , who back prime minister abhisit vejjajiva - - and the " red men " - - supporters of former premier vejjajiva sundaravej whose power bases was mainly drawing from the king ' s millions of peasants residents . bureaucratic and commercial elites have run thailand for decades , with the poor excluded except during elections when competing parties generally trying to buy their votes . before abhisit swept to power in 2000 , promises a raft of programs aimed at the unemployed , nothing shifted .
The "yellow shirts" supports Vejjajiva.