Opposition parties vow to scrutinise Prayut government

By The Nation

 

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Thailand's seven opposition parties are preparing to welcome and scrutinise former junta leader Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's government.

 

Led by Pheu Thai and Future Forward parties, they convened on Wednesday for more than three hours and said later they would work inside and outside parliament to keep the government in check.

 

They said they would propose motions to debate the PM’s and MPs’ qualification and the recruitment of the Senate as well as government policies.

Other items included amendments of the Constitution, they added.

 

While scrutinising parliament was their major focus, the group also placed importance on campaigning for a better understanding of legislation by the public.

 

“The seven parties would bring hope to the people as a strong opposition that will scrutinise the government,” said Future Forward Party’s secretary-general Piyabutr Saengkanokkul. 

 

“Now, General Prayut Chan-o-cha will actually run the country with a real opposition. So, he can learn how to be a government under democratic rule.”

 

An opposition whip will be appointed to coordinate the work in addition to a working committee comprising of members from the seven parties.

 

Pheu Thai's secretary general said that the small parties will have one member each in the whip. Parties with over five MPs will get two seats while the large parties will get 10, he said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30371026

 

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14 minutes ago, webfact said:

“Now, General Prayut Chan-o-cha will actually run the country with a real opposition. So, he can learn how to be a government under democratic rule.”

For the first five years, the Senate is empowered to jointly deliberate with the House of Representatives on any bills deemed to be related to national reform. And the Senate has the power to veto, at joint meetings of the two Houses, any bill on amnesty. So where is the opposition and democratic rule?

Trust they will be pain in the ar...e of the government which is part of their job and due to very thin Skin of some guys there, we may see some un-democratic moves... and then People will take it to the roads (again).

Please start with how Prawit got those watches. There are sufficient matters that will keep the anti junta bloc busy in Parliament. 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Opposition parties vow to scrutinise Prayut government

Just don't do it through the medium of song. It's not illegal, but for someone reason the police will visit you and make you publicly apologise. 

57 minutes ago, Eric Loh said:

Please start with how Prawit got those watches. There are sufficient matters that will keep the anti junta bloc busy in Parliament. 

Eric, you are so right. Of course I agree with you 100%.

 

But the junta - oh, sorry, the 'government' and their lackeys - will declare that anything truly negative and which they don't want to hear about is 'confusing to the public',  'unparliamentary' and 'irrelevant' and 'out of order'. They will make up the rules/ interpretation of the rules as they go along.

So, regrettably: no debate on Prawit's marvellous and miraculously extensive watch collection!

35 minutes ago, Matzzon said:

They do know that means they promise to do that? On the other hand, there is nothing to scrutinise there. Everything is above board as usual.

Luckily, as Napoleon, oop's the newly appointed PM and party leader doesn't believe in, accept, or is able to accept any scrutiny from the trog's - so everything should work out well for him. 

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Opposition parties vow to scrutinise Prayut government

Great idea but futile as it doesn't matter what anyone thinks here other than the "Dear Leader" ... pfft.

Guessing the opposition will be scrutinized by investigations coming from the country's strict LM laws. 

 

Interesting how the entire Thai military follows one village idiot.

16 hours ago, webfact said:

Opposition parties vow to scrutinise Prayut government

Yeah right! Go for the jugular vein! 

Prawit may be calling it a day soon - unusually rich enough.

Gee Whiz they've suddenly found out what the role of an opposition is!

 

They were oblivious to it and any other scrutiny when in power themselves of course!

They can scrutinize all they want, if they don't have the Thai people behind them and motivated to take action their will be nothing they can accomplish even if they uncover discrepancies.  

Gun trumps whip but wish them well ????

On ‎6‎/‎13‎/‎2019 at 3:18 AM, webfact said:

“Now, General Prayut Chan-o-cha will actually run the country with a real opposition. So, he can learn how to be a government under democratic rule.”

"Learn how" ......... As the old adage goes, pretty hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

And this old dog is a one man show, accustomed to ruling with a "44". He is not a team player.