The Palace has scheduled the royal endorsement of the new charter on Thursday, which would then take effect and kick-start other procedures including promulgation of other organic laws, paving the way for the election.

Under the charter, members of the NRSA or of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) must resign from their posts within 90 days to be able to contest the election after the promulgation.

Alongkorn said the NRSA still had a task to complete before finishing its term. Under the new charter, they would be discharged within four months after the new reform law takes effect following promulgation, he said.

It would also take some time before the mechanisms under the new reform law were put in place, and the NRSA’s work under the government’s supreme committee on reform, reconciliation, and national strategy would continue until then, he added.