writers who sit on the National Reform Council (NRC) should
not be allowed to persuade people to accept the charter draft
in the referendum.
EC chairman Supachai Somcharoen said on
Saturday that the
commission had finished drafting the announcement of a
referendum, to be submitted to the National Legislative Assembly
(NLA) for
endorsement .
The referendum will be held only after the
NRC votes to endorse
the charter. The NRC is scheduled to vote on Sept 6. It
has been
speculated that the charter draft would be endorsed.
It remains
unclear whether the 21 members of the Constitution
Drafting Committee (CDC) will be allowed to vote on their
own draft. The CDC
has 36 members in total and 21 of them
hold seats on the 247-member NRC.
Critics have said it would be a conflict of
interest to allow the
drafters to vote. Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam
said earlier that . there was no law or rule that prevents the
charter writers from
voting on the document they had written.
NRC chairman Thienchay Kiranandana
agreed, but said that
since the vote would be done openly, the CDC members
could
be allowed to join and their votes would be deducted later
if problems
emerged. Some NRC members believe it would be
unethical for the CDC members to
vote. They point out that
former MPs and senators in the Yingluck Shinawatra government
were almost impeached for the same behaviour.
They had been accused of having a
conflict of interest when
they voted on a charter amendment that would enable
them
to run in the next Senate election.
Reports of a rift in the NRC have also
started to circulate on
a Line chat group. NRC member Niran Pantharakit openly
disagreed with the idea of allowing the charter writers to vote,
prompting
responses from CDC chairman Borwornsak Uwanno.
Mr
Niran claimed that apart from seeing the charter they wrote
put into effect,
the CDC had other reasons to want the document
passed. He said the CDC members could
continue to sit on
the reform body and write organic laws related to the
charter
if it passes. They would be paid 6,000 to 9,000 baht for each
meeting.
There are 247 NRC members and at least 124 votes
are needed to pass the charter draft if the
CDC votes are included.
Excluding the CDC votes, the vote will likely lean
toward a "no".
Many provincial NRC members have made clear that they
will
reject it.
Together, they amount to 100 votes. The EC
also proposed
on Saturday to hold a forum in which both supporters and
critics
of the charter draft could air their views independently
and fairly.
Mr Wissanu said this week that anti-charter campaigns by any
group through Line
or other chat applications, video clips,
forums or text messages would be
illegal. He said the move
was tantamount to instigating unrest and violated the
junta's
orders against sedition. The comment was heavily criticised
for its
stance. Samart Kaewmeechai, a former Chiang Rai MP
of the Pheu Thai Party, said
politicians were ready to explain
to the people the flaws of the draft so they
have information
for their own judgement in the referendum.
Mr Wissanu did not
say whether talking about the good points
of the charter or promoting it would
be banned as well.
News,Politics,Bangkok Post, 29 August 2015.
In my viewpoint, since there is no law to
rule that the NRC
member who are CDC also can not vote so they have the right
as NRC member to vote so that
proportion number of voters
that can pass the constitution will be the same,otherwise if we
deduct some
member off the proportion of voters that might
pass the constitution must be change
also and that should
not happen.
For the point that some of NRC members try
to reject the
constitution, if they do they must have clear and reasonable
reason to reject ,because this draft constitution had the public
opinion include already before the CDC conclude the final
draft
already.
From my opinion ,some of the NRC members
have not very good
image for they have conflict of interest by their
opinion since the
others case that we can hear before .
I hope at this time for the progress of the
country the NRC
members should have spirit to do for the
benefit of the
country first.
Sincerely Yours.
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