Thailand sets up security centers ahead of referendum

Thailand's military government has set up security revolves around the nation in front of an August submission on another constitution, a representative for the administration said on Monday.

The focuses are the most recent apportion moved by the administration as Thailand gets ready to vote on another constitution that faultfinders trepidation will dig in the military's impact.

The draft of Thailand's twentieth constitution is to supplant one scrapped after a 2014 overthrow by officers who guaranteed security in Southeast Asia's second-greatest economy.

The Aug. 7 submission will be the main genuine rest of the junta's prevalence since it took power.

A "Middle for Maintaining Peace and Order" has been set up in each one of Thailand's 76 territories, said Major General Sansern Kaewkamnerd, representative for the Thai leader's office, so as to guarantee "no conning, no campaigning and no inducing individuals to vote somehow."

Common governors will be in charge of gathering groups to join the middle including police, troops and regular citizen volunteers.

"We have to guarantee peace amid the choice with the goal that individuals can choose how our nation will push ahead," Sansern told Reuters.

A month ago junta boss Prayuth Chan-ocha and resistance supporters of removed populist head Thaksin Shinawatra both reached the United Nations after an upsurge in political strain, only a day after police close down an appointive checking focus of the "red shirt" hostile to government development.

The red shirts say the focuses are expected to avert extortion.

Thanawut Wichaidit, a representative for the red shirt development, blamed the administration for twofold models.

"We couldn't set up our observing focuses so why ought to the military government be permitted to set up their focuses?" Thanawut told Reuters.

"The military government is blindfolding the electorate and driving their hand to vote in the way they need."

Under the proposed sanction, a junta-selected Senate with seats held for military administrators would check the forces of chose officials for a five-year transitional period.

(Reporting by Amy Sawitta Lefevre, Panarat Thepgumpant and Patpicha Tanakasempipat; Writing by Amy Sawitta Lefevre; Editing by Kim Coghill)

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