Thai PM says won't resign whatever August referendum outcome

Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Monday he would not leave if Thais dismiss a military-sponsored draft constitution when they vote in a choice in August.

Prayuth heads the decision junta, or National Council for Peace and Order, that took power after a bloodless upset toppled Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's chosen government in May 2014 overthrow.

The military had defended the upset, saying it had acted to reestablish security following quite a while of road showings in Bangkok had incapacitated Yingluck's administration.

"I won't leave. I am the person who lays out the guidelines for this nation," Prayuth told correspondents at Bangkok's Government House, demanding Thais ought not contrast him with British Prime Minister David Cameron who reported his abdication a week ago after Britain voted in a choice to stop the European Union.

The junta has said it would do political and financial changes before a general race in 2017 that will begin a move back to popular government.

The Aug. 7 submission will be the principal national vote in Thailand since the upset and ought to give a test of the junta's prevalence, specialists said.

Gatherings of all political stripes have censured the draft constitution as undemocratic, with one noteworthy political gathering encouraging supporters to vote "no".

The junta has banned feedback of the sanction in the keep running up to the vote and in May the Election Commission issued rules banishing anybody from battling for either side in front of the choice.

In the most recent crackdown on dissenters, a Thai court imprisoned seven activists on Friday for crusading against the draft sanction, which commentators say will cherish military power and weaken regular citizen legislative issues.

(Reporting by Pracha Hariraksapitak and Panarat Thepgumpanat; Writing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
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