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Published on August 6, 2007

lNutthawat Subsin, 26, Chiang Mai

Are you seriously asking this question. Absolutely. I will endorse this draft because people's participation is more open.

lSirikarn Pongsutham, 25, graduate student.

(She will endorse the 2007 draft constitution even it evolved from a coup.)

I want a national election to end the chaos. After that I want to it to be revised again.

lJiranan Hanthamrongwit, new-media journalist for prachatai.com.

I will reject the draft charter because the Council for National Security, which is not elected, has their hands all over it. They appointed all 35 charter drafters. I also couldn't accept a partially appointed Senate that will have the power to remove members of Parliament elected by the people.

lKarin Klinkajorn, urban-planning lecturer, King Mongkut Institute of Technology

I'm going to vote against it because it's illegitimate. It's dictatorial to tear down the [1997] charter. And the junta appointed people to write the new charter by themselves, the Constitution Drafting Assembly.

 

lSamak Saensam-arng, a Bangkok taxi driver of Surin

It's not convenient for me to go back [home] to vote but I dislike coups because they're like someone with a gun robbing you.

lKham Napa, Bangkok domestic worker of Nakhon Ratchasima

I'm not going to cast a vote because I must earn money and have no time.

I would have endorsed it, though, if I had the opportunity. I would do it because it will then become the people's charter and I want to be a part of that.

lSakdina Chatrakul na Ayudhya, labour expert and activist

I haven't decided whether to endorse it or reject it but it's pretty much meaningless to me. This draft charter is not good enough.

I wish there was a third box on ballot paper for people who wish to vote against the process. Right now the referendum is becoming a political tool - to accept it is to accept the junta and to reject it is to support Thaksin Shinawatra.

lPavadee Dhramanuwong, 29, officer(She will not make a decision until she has read the draft.)

I've read two pages so I cannot make my decision right now. Sorry, I have a lot of things to do.

Pravit Rojanaphruk,

Pongphon Sarnsamak