Published: 1/04/2011
Bangkok Post
Parliament will press ahead with deliberating the three minutes of the Thai-Cambodian Joint Boundary Commission despite the Constitution Court declining to rule if the documents needed endorsement by the House.
Since the government had submitted a motion asking parliament to approve the documents, they would be taken up by the House, parliament president Chai Chidchob said yesterday.
But if the House did not endorse the minutes, the government which submitted them for consideration in the first place would have to take responsibility or the prime minister may decide to dissolve the House, Mr Chai said.
It was customary, but not legally required, that the government take responsibility if key documents or legislation it forwards are rejected.
The Constitution Court decided to throw out a petition on whether the JBC minutes amount to international treaties under Section 190 of the charter that must be endorsed by parliament.
The court's decision was announced on Wednesday and it presented a hurdle to parliament's consideration of the JBC documents given the fact that their exact status should be known first.
Mr Chai denied that most MPs have stayed away from parliament meetings of late, resulting in quorums not being met, because they were afraid of a legal backlash if they approved the minutes without knowing their exact status.
He said about a hundred opposition Puea Thai Party MPs attended recent meetings but they did not insert their ID cards into the slots to identify themselves during a quorum count. The old manual quorum count should be brought back to resolve this problem, he said.Mr Chai declined to say if the delay in parliament's consideration of the JBC minutes would result in a House dissolution being held up.
He said Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is the only person who can order the House to be dissolved.
Government chief whip Witthaya Kaewparadai said the quorum problems were due mainly to MPs visiting their constituencies to make early preparations for the next election.
Mr Abhisit recently said the House may be dissolved in the first week of May to set the stage for a general election in the following month.
Mr Witthaya said he still hoped the three draft bills on elections would be passed before the House dissolution.
The drafts are expected to be deliberated in parliament on April 7.
But if the bills are not passed in time, the charter allows the Election Commission to issue regulations that can take the place of the organic bills governing the poll, Mr Witthaya said.
Parliament will press ahead with deliberating the three minutes of the Thai-Cambodian Joint Boundary Commission despite the Constitution Court declining to rule if the documents needed endorsement by the House.
Since the government had submitted a motion asking parliament to approve the documents, they would be taken up by the House, parliament president Chai Chidchob said yesterday.
But if the House did not endorse the minutes, the government which submitted them for consideration in the first place would have to take responsibility or the prime minister may decide to dissolve the House, Mr Chai said.
It was customary, but not legally required, that the government take responsibility if key documents or legislation it forwards are rejected.
The Constitution Court decided to throw out a petition on whether the JBC minutes amount to international treaties under Section 190 of the charter that must be endorsed by parliament.
The court's decision was announced on Wednesday and it presented a hurdle to parliament's consideration of the JBC documents given the fact that their exact status should be known first.
Mr Chai denied that most MPs have stayed away from parliament meetings of late, resulting in quorums not being met, because they were afraid of a legal backlash if they approved the minutes without knowing their exact status.
He said about a hundred opposition Puea Thai Party MPs attended recent meetings but they did not insert their ID cards into the slots to identify themselves during a quorum count. The old manual quorum count should be brought back to resolve this problem, he said.Mr Chai declined to say if the delay in parliament's consideration of the JBC minutes would result in a House dissolution being held up.
He said Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is the only person who can order the House to be dissolved.
Government chief whip Witthaya Kaewparadai said the quorum problems were due mainly to MPs visiting their constituencies to make early preparations for the next election.
Mr Abhisit recently said the House may be dissolved in the first week of May to set the stage for a general election in the following month.
Mr Witthaya said he still hoped the three draft bills on elections would be passed before the House dissolution.
The drafts are expected to be deliberated in parliament on April 7.
But if the bills are not passed in time, the charter allows the Election Commission to issue regulations that can take the place of the organic bills governing the poll, Mr Witthaya said.
3 comments:
any party or who ever in power in thailand cambodia will have the problem easy to steal but hard to return cambodia doesn't have the military power to make thailand submission .
stealing is the thailand habit if cannot gain 100% thai want to share 50% something that not belong to thailand.
you can't change thai DNA.
My unfortunate misunderstanding!
I thought section 190 of Thai Charter was amended or nullified a few months ago but now it's clearly not the case!
The 2006 coup leader were very shrewd to put forward many key mechanisms in Thai Charter to ensure their long term political vitality. Poor Siam populace of the South,North and Northeast region have to put up with this militant, dictatorship, colonizing style regime. Nevertheless some good thing did happen in Thai society thanks to the progressive Thai student league action. Because of that such a noble activities,the sensible USA had stop giving or selling high tech weapons to Thai military any longer hence reducing the capability of the slaughtering of Thai own people.(But 90+ lives still lost anyway recently).Now Thai has to look to Sweden to buy jets, German to buy submarine/mobile public restroom,former Soviet state to buy tanks and Israel to buy modern hand guns. The conducts of Thai leaders make the real world leaders think more than twice before they extend their shaking hands. Now it is up to the world community to bring about a tactful way to end the last colony on earth who is at the same time threat a peaceful Cambodia with war.
Good analysis 12:07PM!
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