BANGKOK : Provisional charter is set to be put into effect soon after it is submitted to the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) for final approval before it gets royal endorsement and can be formally made public.
The NCPO learnt some lessons from the 2006 coup. At that time, coup leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin failed to retain enough power after handing the administration over to a post-coup government led by General Surayud Chulanont. Hence, the military was unable to complete its goal of completely overthrowing the Thaksin Shinawatra government.
This is possibly why many of the problems, such as corruption and conflict, were left unsolved and Thaksin's camp managed to return to power.
For many, the 2006 coup was a "waste of time For this mistake not to repeat itself, NCPO believed that the provisional charter will include a special clause that gives the council more power than the interim government in relation to security matters.
This clause would be similar to Article 27 in the 1991 interim charter, which came into effect after the government of Chatichai Choonhavan was ousted in a coup staged by a group of military officers calling themselves the National Peacekeeping Council (NPKC).
Article 27 said that if at any time the country's security was threatened, the NPKC chief or the prime minister had the power to issue orders.
This meant that the NPKC chief had the same powers as the government leader in terms of security matters.
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