Government House,, Spokesman of the Royal Thai Army revealed that the Cabinet is considering a report on the performance of the committee and studying guidelines for holding a referendum to amend the Constitution of 2017. Mr. Chai Watcharong, spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office, revealed that the Cabinet meeting Consider the report on the performance of the committee to consider and study guidelines for holding a referendum. To solve the problem of different opinions regarding the constitution Mr. Chai said that the Election Commission has studied the guidelines for holding a referendum in order to solve the problem of different opinions regarding the constitution. The results of the consideration can be summarized in 2 points. 1. Preparation of a new constitution and holding a referendum. The committee gave its opinion that the preparation of a new constitution would be in line with the decision of the Constitutional Court. The people must first hold a referendum on whether a new constitution shoul d be established or not. Therefore, it was seen that there should be 3 referendums, namely (1) the first referendum on whether or not it was agreed that there would be a new constitution. (2) the second referendum was a referendum. In the process of drafting the amended Constitution (No..) B.E..... (Amended Section 256) to determine the criteria and methods for preparing a new Constitution and (3) holding a referendum. The third time was a referendum after the draft of the new constitution was completed. In order to consider and approve the new draft constitution by holding the first referendum, the referendum question should be set: 'Do you approve of drafting a new constitution without amending Section 1, General Provisions, Section 2, the King?' However, the government should not set a referendum question regarding having a Constitution Drafting Council organize it. Make a new constitution and should not be the one to consider the number and origin of the members of the constitution drafting council, but i t should be the duty and power of the parliament to act when it comes to the drafting of the amended constitution (No. ..) B.E.…. (Amended Section 256) 2. Amendments to the Referendum Act B.E. 2021 The committee has additional concerns and deems it appropriate to make additional amendments to the Referendum Act B.E. 2021 so that the law can be a democratic tool that will help encourage people to directly express their intentions on various matters. It is considered appropriate to make amendments to various issues, such as specifying classifications to have a referendum that has characteristics. to have a resolution and a referendum that has the characteristic of providing consultation to the Cabinet, etc. Source: Thai News Agency