Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today that MOUs 43 and 44, between Thailand and Cambodia, should be terminated if they are found not to be beneficial to Thailand.
Personally, he said believes the memoranda should be scrapped, adding that they are not legally binding per se, so the Cabinet is authorised to terminate both of them.
He said the government is, however, waiting for the results of a study from a House committee on the advantages and disadvantages of the two documents before making a decision, adding that he also wants the public to have a say on the matter as well.
He explained, though, that allowing the people to have a role in deciding the fate of the MOUs does not mean that the government intends to hold the people accountable as well.
The prime minister said that the government has not yet decided whether there will be four ballots in the next election, as suggested by Deputy Prime Minister Borwornsak Uwanno.
This would entail one ballot for the election of constituency MPs, another for the election of party-list MPs, the third for a referendum to decide whether the two MOUs should be scrapped and a fourth for a referendum to approve the drafting of a new Constitution.
He explained that allowing voters to cast four ballots at the same time in the next election will save a lot of money, because holding a plebiscite can cost about six billion baht, but the public must be informed first about the need for them to cast four ballots at the same time.
