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Phra Bat Somdet Phra Paramin Maha Bhumibol Adulyadej Mahitalathibet Ramathibodi Chakkrinaruebodin Sayaminthrathirat Borommanatbophit commands that it be announced as follows:

WHEREAS the National Council for Peace and Order, which is made up of parties of military and police officers, notified Him of the following: As situations of political conflict had taken place in Bangkok Metropolis and adjoining areas for a long, continuous period to the point that they expanded to almost every region of the Country, people were divided into factions, were lacking in unity, and bore hostile attitude towards each other. At times, violence occurred, and forces and arms of war were employed to harm and hurt each other, causing the well-being and subsistence of the people to deviate from normalcy, the development of the economy, politics, and administration to be interrupted, the exercise of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers to be affected, and the enforcement of laws to be in vain. This was such a grave crisis that had never been seen before. Although the State had resolved the problems through legal mechanism and measures, such as by enforcing the laws on maintenance of order under various states of affairs, dissolving the House of People’s Representatives, and organising a general election, and [even though] the factions which were not the rivalling groups, as business organisations from the private sectors, constitutional organisations, political parties, the Armed Forces, and the Senate, had attempted to arrange negotiations for reconciliation, [their efforts] were of no avail and would even bring about new legal and political disputes, resulting in a whirlpool