Activist urges halt to key vote
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Prolific petitioner Srisuwan claims court ruling requires referendum
published : 14 Mar 2021 at 04:00
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Activist Srisuwan Janya on Saturday threatened to ask the National Anti-Corruption Commission to take action against any parliamentarians who vote for a charter amendment bill in a third reading scheduled for next Wednesday.
The secretary-general of the Association for the Protection of the Thai Constitution said a Constitutional Court ruling last Thursday was clear and without need of any further interpretation.
However, Mr Srisuwan said the opposition parties and some government coalition parties had caused confusion by attempting to interpret the ruling in order to push for passage of the bill in the third reading, even though the court s ruling was legally binding on parliament, the cabinet, independent agencies and state agencies.
A political tug-of-war is raging over the charter amendment bill, with its critics seeking to block its passage in a third reading vote next week and its supporters determined to push it through.
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Top court set to rule on charter rejig
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published : 5 Mar 2021 at 06:33 he Constitutional Court
The Constitutional Court is set to rule on March 11 whether parliament has the power to open the way for a rewrite of the charter in its entirety.
If the court decides parliament possesses no such power, the motion to amend Section 256 in the constitution, which has passed scrutiny during the second reading, is unlikely to make it to the third and final reading when MPs and senators are due to vote whether to pass it or not.
The Office of the Constitutional Court released a news bulletin yesterday announcing the court will pass the ruling on March 11 ahead of the third-reading vote scheduled for March 17.