Con for All" submitted to "Wan Nor-Government-Opposition" to include the draft of the amendment to the constitution as soon as possible. It is not necessary to wait for the referendum to pass. It is worried that the process will be delayed and will not be in time for the 2017 election. "Muk" is 100 percent confident that the Speaker of the House will include it in the agenda.Reporters reported that the civil society network, in the name of the People's Constitution Drafting Group (Con for All), submitted a letter to Mr. Wan Muhammad No Matha, the President of the House of Representatives, to demand that the parliament expedite the drafting of a new constitution as soon as possible. Mr. Muk Sulaiman, Secretary to the President of the House of Representatives, Mr. Kampee Dithakorn, Spokesperson of the President of the House of Representatives, Mr. Wisut Chainarun, MP for the Pheu Thai Party in the capacity of Chairman of the House of Representatives Coordination Committee, and Mr. Panus Wacharasindhu, MP for the People's Party in the capacity of Coordinating Committee of Opposition Parties in the House of Representatives, were the recipients.The People's Network for Drafting the Constitution said that since the House of Representatives and the current cabinet only have 2 years and 8 months left in their terms, if this process is delayed and not started, they are afraid that it will not be completed in this parliament or will not be completed at all. Therefore, we have been following the situation because we have always known that the Pheu Thai Party, led by the cabinet of former Prime Minister Settha Thavisin, has announced that there will be a process to reach a new constitution by holding a referendum 3 times. We are waiting for the first time to start, but the Senate has not yet approved the referendum bill. However, before the referendum bill is completed and the first referendum is held, and then the process begins, it is certain that it will not be completed in this parliament or the Pheu Thai government.The People's Network for Drafting the Constitution continued that we would like to propose and confirm that we do not oppose the first referendum, but if the timeline is like this, it would be better not to do it because currently, there is no law that requires the first referendum to be held, and the Constitutional Court's ruling does not say that it must be done.Therefore, we should start the process of drafting a new constitution by opening the parliament to include the agenda of the draft amendment to Article 256 of the constitution to consider the establishment of members of the Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) and then move forward. This can be done from today without having to wait for the referendum act first because this will be the only way that will give us the opportunity to have a new constitution within the parliament and this government. It is expected that the amendment of the constitution, article by article, will take into account the rights of the people in various aspects.Mr. Muk a ssured that the Speaker of the House agreed and was willing to cooperate 1000%. He will expedite the incorporation of this law as soon as possible because the parliament also wants this matter to be successful. He also asked for cooperation from the people that if they want the amendment of the new constitution to be as everyone wishes, they must help push for the upper and lower houses to have the same opinion as the people want because at present there are still some parties who do not agree.While Mr. Wisut said that he thanked the people who came today. It was like giving us encouragement to push for the amendment of the constitution that many political parties promised the people, both the amendment of the whole document and the amendment of each section. It is considered the first law that the government and the opposition parties have agreed on from the beginning. He admitted that there are obstacles at the moment. Everything is not as fast as we had hoped. But the Senate will send the draft back to s et up a joint committee to decide what will happen in the end.Mr. Panusaya said that he was a representative of the opposition party that promised the people about amending the constitution. The position of the People's Party as the leader of the opposition party has always been that the 2017 constitution has problems and we agree that they must be implemented in parallel. The first way that we see as the best way to have a new constitution in time for the 2027 election is to reduce the number of referendums from 3 to 2, but it depends on the decision of the House Speaker whether to include it in the agenda or not. The People's Party has already submitted a draft of the amendment of the constitution, Article 7, package.Source: Thai News Agency