BANGKOK, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- Thai prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said his government will follow the roadmap to a general election in 2017 after official results of the charter referendum came out on Wednesday.
"All of what happened earlier are consistent with our roadmap...the Constitution Drafting Committee(CDC) will make amendments to the draft constitution in accordance with result of the referendum on the additional question, then the draft will be sent to Constitutional Court to examine, then submitted to the King for endorsement," Said Prayut in a TV address, adding that this process will be finished in three months.
According to Prayut, the 2014 interim constitution will be replaced by the new one after its promulgation and CDC will work on 10 organic laws, especially four of them that are necessary for a general election, during which the National Council for Peace and Order, or the junta will function normally until there is a new government under the new constitution.
Prayut said the four organics laws will be promulgated in middle 2017, after which the Election Commission will hold a general election in five months, if the country is still stable.
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