EC chairman Supachai Somcharoen said the EC had earlier floated an idea to print the disadvantages and advantages of the charter draft after seeing some other countries provided such information for voters in public referendums. He cited for instance, the referendum for Scotland to have autonomy and independence from the United Kingdom.

But he said given that there had been much criticism of the proposal, the EC would not implement the idea to prevent any hassles.

Supachai said the EC would stick with wordings for the additional referendum question as approved by the National Legislative Assembly. He said although the question sounds difficult to understand, the EC only has the duty to print the ballot papers and cannot criticise or object to the question.

The NLA wanted an additional question on whether voters agree with allowing Senators to vote for the PM, apart from the main question of whether to accept or reject the charter draft.

The EC will meet tomorrow to decide the referendum date.

According to the law, the EC must schedule the voting date not less than 90 days and not more than 120 days after it receives the final charter draft from the Constitution Drafting Commission, he said.

The referendum date has tentatively been set for August 7.