The People’s Constitutional Drafting Group (ConForAll) has launched a campaign to gather over 50,000 signatures to propose a bill amending the Constitution and pushing for fully democratic direct elections for Constitution Drafting Assembly (CDA) members.

A network of civil society organizations has filed a complaint against 5 Constitutional Court judges, seeking an investigation into their unsolicited statement prohibiting the direct election of a Constituent Assembly in the new constitutional drafting process.

A network of civil society organizations has urged the Constitutional Court to release its full ruling on prohibiting direct election of a Constituent Assembly in the new constitutional drafting process, arguing that the Court exerted its power excessively and undermined democracy.

Following last week’s Constitutional Court ruling prohibiting a direct election of Constituent Assembly, a network of civil society organizations staged a protest in front of the Constitutional Court office demanding that a Constituent Assembly must be elected.

Parliament has adjourned its joint sitting of MPs and senators to debate two bills proposing amendments to the Constitution due to a lack of quorum for two days in a row, further delaying the process of drafting a new Constitution.

After the cabinet announced on Tuesday (23 April) that it will require three referendums on amending the constitution, concerns have been raised that a provision prohibiting amendments on monarchy-related chapters in the Constitution will lead to a dead end and raise questions about the role of the monarchy.

In August 2023, a network of civil society organizations launched the #ConforAll campaign for a referendum on constitutional amendments. After the network was told by the Election Commission that all signatures must be collected on paper, volunteers across the country launched their own campaigns to get people to sign the petition, gaining the ConforAll campaign 212,139 signatures within three days. For their effort in the campaign, Prachatai names these citizen volunteers our 2023 Persons of the Year.

Following a cabinet decision to set up a committee to study approaches to constitutional amendment, a civil society network campaigning for a new constitution has voiced concerns about the government’s policy, noting that it remains unclear how the amendments will be made.