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Parliament on Wednesday rejected a draft by Re-Solution leader Parit Wacharasindhu and 135,000 others to change the Constitution after senators voted to oppose it.

Myanmar’s 2008 Constitution cannot be abolished as it was approved after holding people’s referendum, but matters or issues that are not suitable with the modern day can be amended, according to SAC Chairman, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. 

Voting on 13 constitutional drafts on Thursday will go ahead separately, House Speaker Chuan Leekpai said on Wednesday.

The general public will now be able to support proposed amendments to the law via digital platforms, the Royal Gazette announced on Friday.

Hours after a pro-Trump mob incited by the president stormed the Capitol, dozens of Democrats demanded that he be removed under the 25th Amendment - an unprecedented option being seriously discussed late Wednesday by senior administration officials alarmed at Trump's conduct.

The draft submitted by iLaw to change the Constitution was rejected in Parliament on Wednesday after senators voted overwhelmingly to oppose it. Two charter-change drafts sponsored by government parties and the opposition were passed in the first reading.

The petition to rewrite the charter began in August while the Ratsadon group was established in October, revealed iLaw manager Yingcheep Atchanont, while calling on MPs and senators not to be suspicious about the intention to have a “normal political system”.

House Speaker Chuan Leekpai said on Wednesday morning that a Parliament meeting today would feature voting on amended constitution drafts as proposed by both the ruling coalition and the opposition.

Parliament will begin voting on seven charter-change motions on Tuesday as Thailand reaches a crossroads in its escalating political crisis.

The amendment of the Constitution has not been added to the agenda when Parliament reconvenes on November 1, House Speaker Chuan Leekpai said.

Non-profit organisation iLaw is not going to organise a protest to pressurise the National Assembly into rewriting the Constitution, manager Yingcheep Atchanont said on his Facebook page yesterday (September 22).

House Speaker Chuan Leekpai has rejected a complaint by Palang Pracharat MPs that two separate motions to amend the Constitution should be postponed because certain opposition MPs had signed both of them.