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Chiang Mai - A local red-shirt leader here Saturday vowed to rally up to 40,000 protesters from eight northern provinces to protest against the prime minister next Sunday.

Kanya Phakmaneechak, a leader of the Rak Chiang Mai 51, said the red-shirt people would not allow Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to visit Chiang Mai to attend the Chamber of Commerce meeting next Sunday.

She said the protesters would fire 100,000 firecrackers to unwelcome the prime minister.

The Nation