"The CDA will probably move for constitution-draft revisions following the May 29 debate on the 12 reports," CDA member Wichai Roopkhamdee said yesterday.

He said he would coordinate with the 35 charter-framers to avoid duplications.

"The CDA will not touch the clauses that the charter-writers already plan to amend."

Charter-writer Komsan Phokong said most of his colleagues had agreed to insert an electoral ban on party executives linked to electoral fraud, but they were still split on whether it would be for life or five years.

The proposal was designed to strengthen the qualifications of candidates by weeding out executives regardless of whether they were punished along with their convicted party.

He said the move had no link to the upcoming electoral-fraud verdicts involving the Thai Rak Thai and Democrat parties.

He said he would still push for removing the article on the national-crisis commission, even though CDA member Chirmsak Pinthong insisted it enjoyed strong public support.

"I don't know how Chirmsak can claim that 60 per cent of public-hearing participants want to retain the clause," he said, arguing that the public mood and the vast majority of stakeholders opposed it.