DHAKA: Elections for parliamentarians are expected to be held in October 2015 and a democratically elected government will be in place late next year.

Thailand’s junta leader has said, reports The Straits Times.

General Prayuth Chan-ocha, the chief of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), said a provisional charter would be promulgated next month and a new Constitution could be announced by August next year.

When the new Constitution is in place, the NCPO’s interim government will spend about three months preparing for the election of new parliamentarians, according to General Prayuth, who is also Army commander-in-chief.

‘The elections to be held under the new Constitution will be fair and just in order to bring about a constructive and complete democracy,’ he said during his weekly TV address on Friday night.

BDST: 1232 HRS, JUNE 28, 2014