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Calling For New Charter Is Totally Fine: Election Official

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Calling For New Charter Is Totally Fine: Election Official

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

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Future Forward Party Founding members Thanatorn Juangroongruangkit, center right, and Piyabutr Saengkanokkul, center left, at Sunday party meeting. Photo: Matichon

 

BANGKOK — There is nothing wrong with campaigning on a pledge to rewrite the constitution, the head of the Election Commission said Monday.

 

A day after the Future Forward Party chose autoparts billionaire Thanatorn Juangroongruangkit to lead the party for which replacing the charter is a central issue, the commission’s secretary-general said doing so would violate no regulations.

 

Full story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2018/05/29/calling-for-new-charter-is-totally-fine-election-official/

 
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how about revocation of the blanket immunity from prosecution of coup leaders? I'm sure that is on the minds of many but no one dare mention it now...

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This is intriguing. So the head of the Election Commission is at odds with Prayut over whether Thanathorn's party can indeed call for a new Constitution. 

 

Methinks more and more people are sick and tired of the antiquated dinosaur, Prayut, and are turning against him. When even the boss of the Election Commission opposes Prayut's diatribes, we can be confident that discontent is brewing.

 

Interesting times indeed!

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Tomorrow's headline -- PM transfers EC chair to inactive post at animal shelter.

 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

There is nothing wrong with campaigning on a pledge to rewrite the constitution, the head of the Election Commission said Monday.

Handcuff him and throw him in the darkest cell. Sedition within the ranks! Monty Python couldn't create this sort of stuff.

One thing for sure, "you know who" will be as mad as a cut snake.

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19 minutes ago, Cadbury said:

Handcuff him and throw him in the darkest cell. Sedition within the ranks! Monty Python couldn't create this sort of stuff.

One thing for sure, "you know who" will be as mad as a cut snake.

The wittle wascal has spiwit. Brawado. A touch of dewwing- do.  This wapscallion should be thwown to the floor and stwicken woughly. 

He will find himself in gwadiator school vewy quickly with wotten behaviour like that. - Pontius Prayut

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Twisting his words. The amnesty was aimed people the junta have jailed for speech crime. As for the constitution, claiming that it was approved through a public referendum is a joke. To quote a writer in the Economist in May, it was "approved in a farcically circumscribed referendum, (which) creates a National Assembly consisting of an appointed Senate with 250 members, to be picked by the generals..." The so-called Democratic Party really are a despicable bunch of whining maggots. 

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2 minutes ago, stephen tracy said:

Twisting his words. The amnesty was aimed people the junta have jailed for speech crime. As for the constitution, claiming that it was approved through a public referendum is a joke. To quote a writer in the Economist in May, it was "approved in a farcically circumscribed referendum, (which) creates a National Assembly consisting of an appointed Senate with 250 members, to be picked by the generals..." The so-called Democratic Party really are a despicable bunch of whining maggots. 

'A Democrat Party spokeswoman questioned online why Future Forward, a party that has banked its success on promoting representative democracy, would oppose a charter approved through a public referendum.'

 

Yes, Stephen Tracy, how utterly pathetic and ridiculous this Democrat Party spokesman is. What a complete fool. It just shows that the Democrat Party is still the party of the military/ faux-elite Establishment. Unlike this twit of a 'Democrat', brave Thanathorn has put his finger on a key requirement for Thailand's democratic advance and wants to scrap the 'Constitution' precisely because it was NOT approved by a genuine referendum process: people could be jailed for 10 years if they spoke out negatively against the 'Constitution' in the run-up to the 'Referendum'. 

 

The fake Constitution needs to go - and to be fair to him, Thanathorn is the first politician loudly to proclaim this, again and again, right from the start of his political mission to get democracy back into Thailand. Well done, Thanathorn.

 

 

10 hours ago, Eligius said:

This is intriguing. So the head of the Election Commission is at odds with Prayut over whether Thanathorn's party can indeed call for a new Constitution. 

 

Methinks more and more people are sick and tired of the antiquated dinosaur, Prayut, and are turning against him. When even the boss of the Election Commission opposes Prayut's diatribes, we can be confident that discontent is brewing.

 

Interesting times indeed!

Yes,  enough is enough.  The trouble with Prayut is that he defiantly does not communicate nor engage in debate, so people just pass him by.   Who has time to read this man's mind and, if they did, they would find nothing there anyway.  This is beyond the fact that he seized power of course.  This young man is happy to argue which is healthy for Thailand. 

I read this morning that the thought of changing the constitution, at least pertinent parts, was backed by the other two main parties. Has the snowball started to swell I wonder?

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