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Thai PM assures general election in 2017

  (Reuters) — Thailand‘s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Monday (February 1) that a general election will take place in 2017, amid criticism that a draft constitution unveiled last week would delay the poll. A draft constitution released on Friday (January 29) has been pilloried by all major political parties, raising fears it will be rejected in a July referendum, delaying a return to democracy. “The year 2017, 2017, 2017,” a visibly irritated Prayuth told […]