Thai Senate ducks call to pick unelected PM

[ozvenison]

Has all 150 senators been at these meetings or just the gang of 40 plus someone to help serve the drinks ?

Edited May 16, 2014 by ozvenison

[ozvenison]

When is the constitutional court going to rule on the amnesty bill and throw each and every one of the bums that voted for it out of office?

Coming soon...

Not so quick. Read your Thai history. Amnesty bills were passed in 1978, 1988 (granting amnesty to for those involved in the failed 1985 coup attempt), and after the 2006 coup. The last of which absolved the coup makers of all liability. Incidentally, Suthep and Abhisit would also benefit from the current amnesty bill.

I do love it when people talk about the amnesty bill and state

"Suthep and Abhisit would also benefit from the current amnesty bill." Without going on to say 'although they are on record as stating they do not want amnesty via the bill '

Shameful twisting of the facts!

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Then why hasn't Suthep turned up to face the charges? Abhisit has..

Edited May 16, 2014 by ozvenison

[wandasloan]

When is the constitutional court going to rule on the amnesty bill and throw each and every one of the bums that voted for it out of office?

You're kind of clutching at straws. The case may proceed, but all the Court can do is disqualify 312 MPs who are no longer MPs because the House has been dissolved. There wouldn't be any/much effect on government. There are various suits and charges floating around that might better serve your cause. This is now pretty much a moot case, essentially a dead issue so far as your efforts to unseat the current government.

Backed down from a coup? I think only Jatuporn and Nattawut have warned against coups a dozen or so times. The army has regularly been asked to confirm they will not and every time they confirmed.

I always love this one. You believe in the coup fairy!

But. Could you give us a list of the time(s) the military "confirmed" they intended to launch a coup? Even one example of one of the 19 coups? One? No, of course you can't. On the other hand, you can provide hundreds and hundreds of times opposition figures in the past 82 years have warned about a possible coup.

This warning of a coup followed by military denial of a pending coup is Thai kabuki. It is form, shadows, dance and utterly, totally meaningless.

The fact is there ALWAYS is a threat of a military coup in Thailand, every day - a real threat, not just an "opposition claimed" threat. And there is NEVER "going to be a coup" by the military, ever.

You can bank that. There is no variance. It has not changed and it will not change.

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Edited May 16, 2014 by wandasloan

[howzat]

Senate Ducks...If it looks like a duck walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it probably is a duck. How wrong I have been as I always thought they were baboons.

[ramrod711]

I am not clutching at straws, I really want to know if amending a bill after the first reading, lying to the opposition in order to have them out of the way so that the bill could be passed at 04:00 hours isn't a worse offense against the constitution than moving a guy to make room for a relative. The Thai people seemed to think so when they took to the streets.

[Civil War]

its not the amnesty bill, that was abandoned but it wasn't deemed illegal by anyone, it was the supporting of an amendment to the constitution that would have made the upperhouse fully elected, but that will take time and each MP has to be impeached by the senate and then he will be replaced by another.. it does not seem like that path can help suthep, but if the democrats want any chance at that they'll have to run in the election,

When is the constitutional court going to rule on the amnesty bill and throw each and every one of the bums that voted for it out of office?

No.

The senate can impeach all 308 in one sitting.

They all get banned for 5 years and that opens the door for the appointment of a new PM and cabinet in entirety through the senate.

All it takes is for a ruling from the constitutional court to send an impeachment order to the senate, and if the 96 who voted for Surachai is anything to go on, they will be impeached.

Anyway,the next stage would be to see them indicted by the court first, then it goes to the senate.

Some of them are already gone and not all require the 3/5 vote... only sitting MPs and most of those 308 are no longer MPs, they are no more than party members and require only a 51% result... Even the cabinet members are not technically MPs (Member of Parliament), because there is no 'parliament'.