The election was tentatively scheduled for November this year.

“The assembly of citizens desiring to vote” will be held by the Democracy Restoration Group at 5.30pm at the skywalk over the Pathumwan intersection, central Bangkok, as a mark of defiance against the ruling National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO).

“If we let it [the delay of the election] happen without doing anything, the NCPO will, in future, find ways to postpone [the election] again and again,” the group wrote on its Facebook page yesterday.

The group said people who feel sick about the “indefinite” delay in the holding of the election were invited to join forces and voice their discontent so that the NCPO would realise people will not tolerate their use of power for their own interests.

The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) late on Thursday passed the MPs election bill with a clause that delays it coming into effect for 90 days after its promulgation.

Critics have slammed the move as indicative of the NCPO’s desire to cling on to power.