Every military coup lead to drafting a new constitution.
The cycle has been repeated again and again which the
believe that it is a recipe to the true democracy.
You can read about the evil cycle in Thailand
in my article “Sustainable Development will servive
critical in Thailand”
http://myblogbenchawan.blogspot.com/2015/03/sustainable-development-will-survive.html
The draft charter is to be finished and send to the
National
Reform Committee (NRC) to scrutinize on April 20-26.
On May 23-26, the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC)
will review it again from section1-315 by scrutinizing ideas
from every parties together and will be send to the CDC to
make a final decision whether they will except the
charter
or not on Augest 6.
So the time period is closed around but there are many
complain from the Pheu Thai and Democrat parties, and
it is amazing time that the two parties have the same
opinions.
They agreed that the charter will harm the two parties
and the
charter does not
seem to address the political conflicts.
The critical issues are :
1.Number of MPs which will cut from 500 to between 450-470
under the MMp
system.
2.None- elected outsider prime minister wiil be allow to
be
appointed in crisis situation.
3.The bargaining power of small parties against two big
parties
will be more.
4.All 200 senetors will come from appointment.
5.The national Equity and Ethic Commission is expected
to be formed with controversies that these parties are
the
successor of the NRC and NLA.
You can read more in “Conflict of interest of the new
coming Constitution”
http://myblogbenchawan.blogspot.com/2015/03/conflict-of-interest-of-new-comimg.html
http://myblogbenchawan.blogspot.com/2015/03/conflict-of-interest-of-new-comimg.html
And in the article “Is the draft charter fit for
democracy and
the next election in Thailand”
http://myblogbenchawan.blogspot.com/2015/03/is-draft-charter-fit-for-democracy-and.html
As the two parties are players in the political
games,they have
direct conflict of interest so their opinions can listen
to but
the decision about the new constitution should come from
every parties including public opinions to make a
sustainable
Constitution.
The opinions from the two parties should not dominated
Thai people it should use only as one source of public
opinions
because they are not the owner of the country.
And referendum for the new consideration is need to make
sure that it is accept by the majority of Thai citizens.
You can read more in “Referendum the draft charter
for the true democracy”
As of the CDC plan if there is no referendum the new
election
will be hold on the end of February or at the beginning
of
March 2016.But if the cabinet make the decision to
referendum,
the time period for the new election will be extend
about three
months to June 2016.
In my viewpoint, as we wait for the true democracy,and
we
do not want the
cycle of coup again, the time period of
three month is very short period ,it worth for waiting
to
get rid of the conflicts and give every Thai citizens to
use their rights to make the beginning step of the true
democracy in the long run.
Hope for complete constitution that everyone accept
which lead to true democracy.