Thai missions to tell world election to be definitely held next year

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TO TELL FOREIGN MEDIA

THE SUNDAY NATION February 14, 2016 1:00 am

THAI embassies and consulates all over the world have been instructed to tell foreign media and people in general that a general election will definitely be held next year.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the instruction to all Thai missions, Sek Wannamethee, director general of the Department of Information and ministry spokesman, said.

“The ministry has ordered all of Thailand’s embassies and consulates to explain to the different sectors and mass media of foreign countries about our country’s political development,” he said yesterday.

Sek said that Thailand was in the |second phase of the three-phase road map to return democracy to the country.

“Reform is being implemented along with drafting a new constitution. All this will lead to the next general election within 2017,” he said.

Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha was making the final touches on what should be revised in the charter draft before suggestions from the Cabinet were submitted to the Constitution Drafting Commission tomorrow.

“We don’t expect the CDC to revise their draft in line with all of our suggestions. And there is no need for the drafters to refer to the Cabinet’s recommendations alone,” Wissanu said.

Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva said the party had submitted suggestions on how to revise the first draft to CDC chairman Meechai Ruchupan.

Abhisit said the Democrats had mainly called on the drafters to retain the chapter on rights and liberties, as was the case in 1997 and 2007 constitutions. He noted that there had been widespread concern over this matter.

“The CDC should revise their draft in a way that is acceptable to the public,” he said.

In a related development, the government has publicised diagrams showing the relationship between the Cabinet and other organisations set up after the coup of 2014.

Government spokesman Maj-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd said that PremierPrayut, who also heads the National Council for Peace and Order, wanted the public and foreigners to better understand the workings of these agencies.

General Prayut did this in the face of attempts by some people to create confusion and misunderstanding, the spokesman said.

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