Confusion over committee to appoint new Electoral Commissioners

By The Nation

 

 

The National Human Rights Commission and the Office of the Auditor General lack the qualifications to nominate members to a committee to seek new Election Commissioners under the new organic laws.

 

The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) president Pornpetch Wichitcholchai said on Wednesday that this was because the two organisations did not nominate anyone within 20 days, or by October 3, after they were contacted by the Secretariat of the Senate.

 

This will result in the committee to select the new EC comprising only six members – but the selection procedure could continue as usual, Pornpetch said.

 

Applications for positions as commissioners will be open from October 19 to November 10.

 

New commissioners are being sought because the new organic law on the EC, enacted last month, stipulates that the former commissioners had to leave office once the law was enforced. They are now in acting positions.

 

The current commissioners have been skeptical about the new law since the drafting process, largely because of the qualifications required under the law.

 

On Sunday, Election Commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn also argued that a Constitutional Court representative in the seeking committee, Jarernsak Rojanaritphichet, might fail to be qualified as he had not resigned from a political position he held.

 

But Nat Phasuk, secretary-general to the Secretariat of the Senate, on Wednesday reiterated that Jarernsak, a former deputy rector of Kasetsart University and a drafter of the 2007 charter, is actually qualified as he never held such a political position.

 

According to Jarernsak’s profile in the Kasetsart University database, he was once appointed as an adviser to industry minister, agriculture and cooperative minister, and deputy prime minister. However, the profile does not specify the names of the politicians Jarernsak served or when he worked for them.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30329600

 

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Must be the easiest gig in town, considering there is no election.

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More bog wash to delay an election that we all know has been fixed already when one finally arrives.

 

How can any businessman or even Japanese companys invest here with so many corruption mountains to climb, just like putting your money down the loo

Edited October 18, 20178 yr by wakeupplease

The junta will create their own nominees, they will appoint their own election officers, and if it resembles a corrupt and illegal system they will change the law after the fact to say "look it is all legal and democratic"

15 hours ago, Daryle said:

Must be the easiest gig in town, considering there is no election.

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What is an "organic law"? No pesticides, no Paraquat, no politicians?

14 hours ago, wakeupplease said:

More bog wash to delay an election that we all know has been fixed already when one finally arrives.

 

How can any businessman or even Japanese companys invest here with so many corruption mountains to climb, just like putting your money down the loo

Au contraire. Military govts are less greedy than civilian, "democratic" ones. Less imagination, fewer needs and more face. In Thailand the military is the best bet. 

Hey, anyone who's willing to die for you is OK.

Edited October 19, 20178 yr by jgarbo

Confusion = elections to be held in 202n.

 

When the Junta supremo said, shortly after the coup, that elections would be held in October, 2015, there were whispers that 2020 was the earliest it might happen.

 

It takes a long time to both form a new green (camo, not enviro.)/yellow party, and insure they will be "elected".