CDC chairman Borwornsak Uwanno added more doubt to public suspicion about the new constitution when he outlined the drafting of the charter to other members in the committee's first official meeting last week.
Furthermore, many drafters backed the idea proposed by the chairman that the new charter would be drafted from scratch.
Many also insisted that Article 35 in the Provisional Constitution, which stipulates that the CDC must draft the charter to include 10 framework issues, must be inserted in the new charter.
Up until this point, political observers still believed that many CDC members were seen as anti-Thaksin and they would draft the constitution to prevent his regime from rising again.
For these reasons, it would seem to confirm that the junta chief and Prime Minister, General Prayut Chan-o-cha, together with the junta, already had ideas on the content to be included in the charter.
The question is, to what extent will this constitution be projecting the ideas of the people.
The essential contents of a charter in democratic countries include "popular sovereignty", "limitation of government power", and "institutional and procedural limitations on powers".
Yet, sadly, this country is still failing to elevate its ideas of democracy to project the rights of the people.
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