Volume 131, Issue 55A
Royal Gazette
22 July 2557
Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand
(Interim),
2557 Buddhist Era[1]
Somdet Phra Paramin Maha Bhumibol Adulyadej
Sayaminthrathirat Borommanat Bophit
Given on the 22nd day of July 2557 Buddhist Era
Being the 69th year of the present reign
Phra Bat Somdet Phra Paramin Maha Bhumibol Adulyadej, Mahitalathibet Ramathibodi, Chakkrinaruebodin, Sayaminthrathirat, Borommanat Bophit, gives a great royal command by which He orders with His pleasure that it be announced as follows:
Whereas the National Council for Peace and Order,[2] which is made up of parties of military and police officers, has humbly made the following submission to Him: As situations of political conflict had taken place in Bangkok Metropolis and adjoining areas for a long, continuous period to the point that they expanded to almost every region of the Country, people were divided into factions, were lacking in unity, and bore hostile attitude towards each other. At times, violence occurred, and forces and arms of war were employed to harm and hurt each other, [causing] the well-being and subsistence of the people to deviate from normalcy, the development of the economy, politics, and administration to be interrupted, the exercise of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers to be affected, and the enforcement of laws to be in vain. [This was] such a grave crisis that had never been seen before. Although the State had [started to] resolve the problems through legal mechanism and measures, such as by enforcing the laws on maintenance of order under various states of affairs, dissolving the House of Representatives, and organising a general election, [and even though] the factions which were not the rivalling groups, as business organisations from the private sectors, constitutional organisations, political parties, the Armed Forces, and the Senate, had attempted to arrange negotiations for reconciliation, [their efforts] were of no avail and would even bring about new legal and political disputes, resulting in a whirlpool
- ↑ Thaipublica (2014): This constitution was drafted by a team of jurists from the Royal Thai Army's Office of the Judge Advocate, the Council of State, and the Secretariat-General of the National Council for Peace and Order, with Phonphet Wichitchonlachai, former judge of the Supreme Court of Justice, as its head.
- ↑ The Thai name of the junta, Khana Raksa Khwamsa-ngop Haeng Chat (Thai: คณะรักษาความสงบแห่งชาติ), literally translates "National Peacekeeping Council". "National Council for Peace and Order" is its official title in English.
