Thailand’s Prime Minister, General Prayuth Chan-ocha, has said that his administration remains committed to returning the nation to democracy despite repeated delays in the timetable for new elections.
“The procedure has followed the roadmap, it is already written in the interim constitution.”
“I reaffirm, as I always have, that our country must be fully democratic, but it must be a constitutional monarchy,” he added.
General Prayuth Chan-ocha, who became the Prime Minister after last year’s bloodless coup, further said that he was not trying to resist or delay or meddle with this.
“I don’t want to be in power,” he added.
The government pushed back the election date again this week, from early 2016 to August-September 2016 ‘at the earliest’ because a referendum would first need to be held on a new Constitution.
May 22 marks the one year anniversary of the Thai coup.
