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Senast ut att kritisera den s.k folkomröstningen och utkastet till ny militär konstitution är Nitirat gruppen som består av progressiva Lag akademiker med Thailändsk lag som arbetsområde, dessa har fördömt det senaste utkastet till konstitution och säger att utkastet bara kommer att förlänga juntans styre.
Nitirat gruppen mmanslutning bestående av progressiva lag akademiker som har gjort sig kända för sin opinionsbildning mot artikel 112 i strafflagen, den s.k lese majestätslagen, gick på Torsdagen den 7 april, 2016 ut med ett offentligt uttalande mot hela förslaget till konstitution skriven av kommittén (CDC) på order av Militärjuntan.
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Progressive law scholars denounce draft charter
Submitted by editor2 on Thu, 07/04/2016 - 17:51
A group of progressive law scholars has denounced the latest draft constitution, saying the draft will only prolong the junta’s rule.
Nitirat group, an association of progressive law academics known for their advocacy against Article 112 of the Criminal Code, the lèse majesté law, on Thursday, 7 April 2016, issued a public statement against the complete draft constitution written by the junta-appointed Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC).
The fate of the draft constitution will be decided with the public referendum, which will be held throughout the country on 7 August 2016.
“Nitirat cannot accept the draft constitution as the supreme law of the country and would like to publically state that we will not accept the draft,” reads part of the 13 pages statement of the group. “And if the draft constitution does not pass the public referendum, the authorities should stop drafting the constitution and return the authorities over the drafting process to the people to decide.”
Slamming the provisional clauses of the draft constitution, Nitirat pointed out that regardless of the promise of an election next year, Article 265 of the draft still ensures that Section 44 of the Interim Charter, which gives absolute power to the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), will remain in place until the new the cabinet formally comes into power.
“This means that the NCPO will continue to have absolute power. Such stipulation in the draft renders important principles of the draft especially principles related to the protection of rights and liberties of individuals useless,” reads Nitirat’s statement.
Under the draft constitution, the general election could be postponed indefinitely because despite the fact that the draft states that the CDC shall draft the organic laws about the election rules within 240 days, it does not provide any solution if such organic laws are not completed within such timeframe, Nitirat added.
“In voting for the referendum on the draft, some people might understand that accepting the draft will bring about the election sooner, but as Nitirat considers the draft constitution in detail, this is not the case,” reads part of the group statement.
Furthermore, the progressive law academic group stated that important contents which should appear in the draft constitution are not written in the draft, but will be in the organic laws which the CDC has not drafted yet, such as a law on the selection method of the unelected senate. Therefore, people are not informed about important details of the draft, which are crucial for them to make a final decision about it via the referendum.
“This condition is problematic because it is not just for the referendum voters and might affect the result of the referendum,” wrote Nitirat group.
In addition, the draft constitution provides impunity for the junta and legitimises all orders and announcements of the NCPO despite the facts that certain actions of the regime might contravene with principles of the draft constitution itself.
Nitirat summarised in the statement “It could be said that if the draft constitution passes the public referendum, the absolute power of the NCPO’s leader under the Interim Charter will not end, but will become parts of the power structure under the new constitution.”
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