Election Commission requested a ruling on the possibility of multiple questions.
The Election Commission (EC ) will be contacted by the charter referendum study panel for clarification on any restrictions on additional questions that may be asked of voters.
The EC may become consulted after it was revealed that the 2017 constitution drafted by the military government does not permit additional issues, according to Yutthaporn Issarachai, a part of the sub-panel on the vote.
After a campaign in which discussion of the qualities was essentially prohibited, 61.4 % of voters supported the junta-drafted charter in the most recent election held in August 2016.
Mr. Yutthaporn pointed out that the 2016 election was conducted in accordance with an interval law, allowing for the addition of a second problem. The latest charter, however, does not offer the same latitude.
Although the document contract stated that even MPs could vote for a prime minister at the most recent election, it was also questioned whether the military-selected Senate should be able to do the same.
The Move Forward Party ( MFP ) suggested that two additional questions in addition to the main question be asked at the charter referendum. Mr. Yutthaporn’s remarks came after that.
Move Forward recommends asking voters whether chapters one and two may be improved and whether the contract rewriting body may have entirely elected members.
Thailand is described in sections of paragraph one as a single, undivided country with the King serving as the head of state, and in chapters two, royal prerogatives are covered.
While the government has decided that chapters one and two wo n’t be revised, Mr. Yutthaporn said that the question of whether members of the proposed charter drafting assembly will be fully or partially elected needs to be further debated.
” And the main referendum question has n’t been resolved either. In January or February, he said, “we’ll provide the investigation, which includes the proposed act to the election law, to case.”
Concerns about the referendum law’s “double majority” requirements, which stipulate that more than 50 % of eligible citizens must have participated in the vote and that a majority of those casting vote may endorse it, led him to predict that the law would probably be changed first.
According to past parliament leader Pokin Polakul, the charter’s Section 256 must also be changed because it creates a significant obstacle to rewriting the document.
According to the area, a mandate rewrite will require the support of at least 84 senators, or one-third of the Senate, as well as 20 % of opposition MPs.
If the revisions include chapters one, two, fifteen, the qualifications of those holding political office or power, and the function of courts or common separate agencies, a referendum must also be held.
” First, we must replace the thorns. If we do n’t amend Section 256, we might not be able to move forward. The remainder may be possible if the area is revised, he said.
The prime minister’s assistant secretary-general, Chanin Rungthanakiat, stated that while the government is not attempting to obstruct the mandate rewrite process as some have claimed, the issue is contentious, and input from all parties must be sought.