Pheu Thai backs new charter drive

Party urges broad public participation

- AEKARACH SATTABURUTH

Chaturon Chaisang, chairman of the party's referendum communication and people's constitution campaign committee, centre, leads a news conference at the Pheu Thai Party headquarters in Bangkok yesterday. Pheu Thai says voters' referendum mandate must deliver a democratic constitution. PHEU THAI PARTY

The Pheu Thai Party has called on political parties, lawmakers, civil society groups and the public to work together to ensure that the people's will, expressed in Sunday's national referendum, leads to the drafting of a genuinely democratic constitution.

Chaturon Chaisang, chairman of the party's referendum communication and people's constitution campaign committee, said yesterday that the "yes" vote demonstrated a clear public desire for a new charter.