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Hanoi (VNA) – Thailand’s general election needs to be delay until 2018 to allow time to pass necessary laws, said a member of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) on January 2.
According to Somjet Booonthanom, the election would likely be postponed until March or April 2018 due to intricacies related to drafting election laws.
Meanwhile, Major General Sansern Kaewkamnerd, the spokesperson of the Prime Minister’s Office, said the election will be held later this year as set in its roadmap. He also stressed that the NLA’s opinions are their own.
According to regulations in a new Constitution approved in a referendum in last August, ten new acts have to be completed in eight months after the new Constitution is issued. Since these acts are accomplished, the new government is able to announce a general election in the next five months.
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