Thailand ? Thousands of supporters of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra surrounded Thailand’s Parliament today, daring lawmakers to pass through their ranks to deliver a speech outlining the new government’s key policies.

With only a handful of opposition lawmakers entering the building, the morning opening of the legislature was postponed.

The demonstration sparked fears of renewed political turbulence, which paralyzed the previous government for months and climaxed with an eight-day seizure of Bangkok’s airports. But the earlier protesters had been part of an anti-Thaksin alliance.

The current protest group — which calls itself the Democratic Alliance against Dictatorship — said it would stay at Parliament until the government calls a new general election.

The group had previously planned to stay for three days.