A voter casts a ballot at a polling station in Bangkok’s Dusit district in the referendum vote on the draft constitution in 2016. (Bangkok Post file photo)The government committee drafting new guidelines on holding a referendum to find common ground on how the 2017 constitution should be amended has decided to ask only one question in the first of three referenda to be conducted on the charter amendment. The committee is gauging public opinion on the wording in an attempt to defuse social and political conflicts related to another round of changes to the charter. The committee also approved a proposal to hold three proposed referenda on the charter amendment, he said. Mr Somchai suggested that a more suitable referendum question would be whether the public agrees with the government's proposal to rewrite the charter with an elected charter drafting assembly.

Source: Bangkok Post December 27, 2023 11:30 UTC