Thailand’s Red Shirts are mobilizing to go to Bangkok for what could be a massive rally on Saturday.  This comes after the Constitutional Court in Bangkok ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to resign, handing the opposition the victory that they could not achieve through free and fair elections or through months of street protests.

Over her protests of innocence, the judges unanimously ruled that Yingluck benefited by removing the country’s security chief in 2011, even though he was soon reinstated.  Supporters of her Pheu Thai Party (PTP) denounced the ruling as a judiciary coup d’etat against a democratically elected government.  One of her remaining ministers has been appointed interim Prime Minister, and plans to hold elections quickly.

The conservative opposition Democratic Party may not be in a hurry to participate in that ballot.  It boycotted the last elections in February, demanding that the elected government be replaced with an appointed ruling commission.  The opposition “Yellow Shirt” protesters, largely urban and middle class to wealthy, will hold another rally on Friday to press that demand.

The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), know as the Red Shirts, is expected to move tens of thousands of supporters from the vast north to the capital.  Last month, a Red Shirt adviser and former military officer said as many as 200,000 armed guards would be ready to march on Bangkok if Yingluck was forced from office.  That threshold has not been crossed.