FOR more than two years Thailand's ruling junta, which seized power in a coup in 2014, has been cookingup a constitution which it hopes will keep military men in control even after elections take place. In August the generals won approval for the document in a referendum made farcical by a law which forbade campaigners from criticising the text. Yet on January 10th, only weeks before the charter was due to come into force, the prime minister said his government was tweaking the draft. Pray-uth Chan-ocha said changes were necessary because King Vajiralongkorn, the country's constitutional monarch, had declined to give the document royal assent.
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