BANGKOK, Feb. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Three Thai opposition parties, including the Democrat Party, the Chart Thai Party and the Mahachon Party, announced Monday that they would boycott the April 2 general election because caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra tried to distort the spirit of real political reform.

    Democrat Party's leader Abhisit Vejajjiva said the three parties would not field candidates in the election because Thaksin was not sincere in the proposal on amendment and political reform proposed by the opposition coalition.

    The announcement came after Thaksin rejected the three opposition parties' demand for Thaksin to sign a pact on the political reform, the Thai News Agency reported.

    Thaksin proposed at a press conference earlier that all political parties should draft social contract as it is greater than pact proposed by the opposition.

    "Thaksin's counter-proposal would run against the principle of political reform and would complicate the reform," Abhisit said.

    The Democrat Party, the Chart Thai Party and the Mahachon Partyearlier proposed that the talks on the second-round political reform be held only among Thaksin, leader of the ruling Thai Rak Thai (TRT) Party, and the three opposition parties' leaders, and that the four-party ratification be signed. Enditem