PM ready to shorten time before next poll
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Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said Tuesday that he would shorten the road map timeline and hold a general election in less than the previously planned 20 months.
The idea was discussed during a joint meeting of the Cabinet, the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) and the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), chaired by Prayut.
The premier said the timeline for a new draft could possibly be shortened, as Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam had earlier indicated. For example, he said the previously envisaged “6-4-6-4” formula, with each number referring to the number of months required for each step of the charter-drafting, consideration and referendum process, could be changed to “4-3.5-4-3.5” instead.
This would make it roughly 15 months, rather than 20 as had been planned.
