July 2017 as Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha says he is
committed to the timeline set to bring the country back to
the polls.
The former army chief made his position
clear in his weekly
Returning Happiness to Thai People broadcast on Friday
night, during which he also pledged transparency in fresh
efforts to speed up
megaprojects.
"I will stand by the 6-4-6-4 formula to general elections as
I have
mentioned before," he said. "There are a number of
things that need
to be done in the national administration
and in tending to remaining urgent matters."
The formula, disclosed
shortly before the first draft constitution
was thrown out by the now-defunct
National Reform Committee
in September, gives a new set of drafters six months
to
work on a new draft and another four months
to hold a referendum. Then the National Legislative Assembly will spend six months
passing organic laws related to new polls, leaving the last four
months for an election campaign.
Under
that timetable, new polls would be held around July 2017,
three years and two
months after Gen Prayut took over the
administration of the country following a
military coup against
the government of Yingluck Shinawatra.
The
military government has been pursuing an ambitious reform
agenda amid calls
from many foreign countries, mostly in
the West, to quickly restore democracy and
make way for new
elections.
Glyn Davies, the new US ambassador to
Thailand. told Foreign
Minister Don Pramudwinai in a meeting on Oct 15 that
while
Washington pledged closer cooperation, it remained firm on
its political
position.
"We [the US] hope Thailand will continue
to rapidly restore
democracy and an elected civilian government," Mr
Davies
said after the talks.
While
21 charter writers are busy working on a yet another
constitution, the
government is struggling to kick-start an
economy that has been hurt by a
variety of factors, both
internal and external.
It is
making a huge bet on infrastructure investment to get
economic activity and
investment moving again.
Its latest initiative is to cut red tape for eight projects under
the public-private partnership programme, or the PPP
fast track, which the cabinet approved last Tuesday.
The prime minister on Friday dismissed concerns about possible
collusion, corruption and conflicts of interest in such
arrangements between gthe government and businesses.
"In order to ensure transparency and fairness, the PPP fast
track will not include time spent auditing and selecting
applicants," he said.
"These procedures must be in accordance with
the Private
Participationin State Undertaking Act."
The projects to benefit from the short-cut
policy include three
mass-transit routes — the Pink Line from Khae Rai to Min
Buri,
the Yellow Line from Lat Phrao to Samrong and theextended
Blue Line from
Bang Sue to Tha Phra — a waste disposal
plant in Nonthaburi province and
another one in
Nakhon Ratchasima.
News,Politic,Bangkok Post, 6 November 2015.
As one of Thai people I do not believe that
the new election
will solve the controversial of the society.
However the election should hold on the time
it should be
for Thai people to learn and go to
sustainable and true
democracy in the future.
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