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In the 76 years since constitutional monarchy was adopted in 1932, Thailand has had altogether 18 constitutions and interim charters. The best constitution ever framed, the so-called People’s Constitution which came into force in 1997, lasted only nine years before it was torn up by the military in a bloodless coup on Sept 19, 2006.

The government is now attempting to set the wheels in motion to draft yet another new constitution for Thailand, a process that will take quite some time.  The aim is, in part, to de-polarize the situation here, but of course it’s possible that it may have the opposite effect.