EC printing up draft constitutions for public review

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EC printing up draft constitutions for public review

BANGKOK, 23 May 2016 (NNT) – The Election Commission (EC) has led the press on a tour of its printing of the draft constitution and other related materials, which are to be dispersed to the public in preparation for the public referendum on the proposed charter.

Deputy Secretary-General of the EC Thanis Sriprathet led the tour, explaining that the nature of the printing made it necessary to select a government owned printing facility. He made known that the budget for the printing was set at 58 million baht, 10 million baht less than initial projections.

One million copies of the draft constitution are to be printed along with 4 million infographic pamphlets. In total, each packet to be handed out to households will contain 13 booklets explaining all relevant data for the public referendum.

Up to 50,000 packets have been handed over to the Constitution Drafting Commission and the National Legislative Assembly to be passed on to the public.

Thanis stated that the dispersion is being done of a proportional basis, admitting that there will not be enough copies for each individual citizen. An initial 100,000 packets will be provided for the public this May 25 at the “Kick Off August 7: Uniting for Sustainable Democracy” event. It is expected that all printing will be completed this June 22.

Apart from the packets, 17 million booklets on the public referendum process are to be passed out 15 days prior to the process as part of its lead up.

-- NNT 2016-05-23

[Srikcir]

Interesting - there will be more booklets on the public referendum process passed out than the abridged copy of the draft constitution, pamphlets and packets.

[Plutojames88]

"" Substainable democracy "" is a silly misleading comment.

It implies its a resource that like trees must be managed and harvested.

That its purity can not be achieved .

That they are the mechanism of achieving it.

Remember this isn't even an election or event .

Not in a democratic sense.

It's a bunch of men with guns saying approve this and we will have an election.

But the content of what's being asked essentially makes them connected to rule of the Nation via mechanisms .

It's a watered down version of representation .

Making the elites no longer worried about election losses.

The problem is the military I believe will use the approval of the charter to stall and delay and then say it was a people's approval

Of them regardless.

[phoenixdoglover]

"Uniting for Sustainable Democracy"

Oh, the irony.