Last 2 organic laws will meet deadline for 2018

By The Nation

 

File photo: Constitution Drafting Commission chairman Meechai Ruchuphan

 

THE CONSTITUTION Drafting Commission (CDC) is committed to finishing drafts of the remaining organic laws under the legal 240-day deadline so that an election can proceed, CDC member Amorn Vanichwiwat said yesterday.

 

The two remaining organic laws – one on the election of MPs and the other on the selection of the Senate – must be in place before a general election could be held by November 2018 as announced last week by the junta government.

 

According to the new charter, the CDC must complete drafting a total of 10 organic laws by 240 days after its promulgation in April 2017.

 

The CDC chairman, Meechai Ruchuphan, recently affirmed that the body should be able to finish the tasks by next month before forwarding them for the National Legislative Assembly’s deliberation.

 

One of the law drafts outlines the work of the constitutionally independent National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), and was written with the aim of speeding up probes in graft cases. But the current NACC argues that some of the draft’s points may go against the charter and worries about conflicting language that blurs its authority under the new mechanisms.

 

One concern, as published on the NACC’s website, is that while the charter assigns the Supreme Court to appoint independent investigators to probe an accused NACC member, the draft of the organic law specifies that the authority to order a probe should also go to the auditor-general, and thus contradicts the charter.

 

NACC president Pol General Watcharapol Prasarnrajkit said earlier that the NACC planned to elaborate on their concerns to both the CDC and the NLA. Amorn has said that the CDC’s |draft law on the NACC does not violate the charter, but that the CDC would take comments from various sides into |consideration.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30329291

 

 

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Let me get this straight This is the 9th or 10 constitution Thailand has had  Should be good to go until the next military take over

7 hours ago, rooster59 said:

while the charter assigns the Supreme Court to appoint independent investigators to probe an accused NACC member, the draft of the organic law specifies that the authority to order a probe should also go to the auditor-general,

These two actions appear to be sequential and not contradictory.

SC appoints independent investigators only after the AG orders a probe. By inference the SC cannot order a probe and the AG cannot appoint the independent investigators. However, such process is still flawed as the AG is under the Justice Ministry that might have vested influence in the NACC.