BANGKOK (Reuters) – Anti-government protesters in Thailand held their ground on the streets of Bangkok on Wednesday and said they would stay there until Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva set a date for dissolving parliament.

Protest leaders, who had demanded an immediate poll, have agreed to enter into a reconciliation process proposed by Abhisit to end a two-month-old crisis but take issue with a proposed November 14 election date.

Several thousand “red shirt” protesters remained in their fortified camp on Wednesday, showing no sign of moving from the district of high-end shopping malls and luxury hotels, many of which have been shut for weeks.

Little movement in the peace process is likely on Wednesday, with neither side wanting to be seen as disrespectful to Thailand’s revered monarch on Coronation Day, a public holiday.

Monks chanted on the stage in the protest camp and offered prayers for 82-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who has been in hospital since last September.

He is to make a rare trip out of hospital on Wednesday for a royal ceremony and people lined the roads on the way to the Grand Palace to catch a glimpse of him.

The red shirts mostly back former premier Thakisn Shinawatra, who was ousted in a military coup in 2006, but more broadly they have developed into a movement of the rural and urban poor opposed to the power wielded by the aristocracy, army, business elite and middle class in Bangkok.