BANGKOK, Dec 10: Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said on Tuesday she would not resign ahead of national elections set for Feb 2, her voice filling with emotion as she discussed her family`s role in Thai politics.

Yingluck spoke one day after she announced elections and one day after the main opposition leader ended a massive protest rally of 150,000 people by insisting his movement had now assumed broad political power.

The streets of Bangkok were quiet, a national holiday,after weeks of sometimes violent political turmoil as protesters demand Yingluck give up power to an unelected `people`s council.

The protesters accuse Yingluck of serving as a proxy for her billionaire brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who lives in self-imposed exile to avoid jail time for a corruption conviction but still wields immense influence in the country.

She became choked up when reporters asked, as they often do, about her family`s position in Thailand`s political scene.

`Fm not without emotion,` she said, her voice quavering.

`Fm also Thai. Do you not want me to set foot on Thai soil anymore? `I have retreated as far as I can. So I ask to be treated fairly,` she said, turning and walking quickly away from the podium.-AP