Public, private representatives to field candidates for NRC

[Lite Beer]

Public, private representatives to field candidates for NRC
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BANGKOK, Aug 9 -- A large number of representatives from the public and private sectors on Saturday attended a meeting, aimed at screening potential members of the National Reform Council (NRC).

The meeting was held at the Thai Army Club and presided over by National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) leader and army chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha.

Gen Prayuth said during the opening of the meeting that the NRC is necessary and it “marks the first time in which a reform is to be undertaken to enable a democratic system to move forward.
Although it’s difficult and foreign countries don’t fully comprehend, we still have to proceed with it, while today should be considered as a historic day for the country.”

Kritsada Boonrat, director-general of Interior Ministry’s Provincial Administration Department, said that every province is now ready to support the selection of NRC members.

The selection will be carried out by a committee comprising provincial governors, provincial chairman of Election Commission (EC), provincial chief judges, provincial administrative organisation and representatives of the private sector.

Mr Kritsada said his department was responsible for organising meetings of representatives from five groups which had discussed 11 ways of reforming the country.

The department compiled opinions after the meetings ended in late July and they would be later forwarded to an NCPO meeting.

Puchong Nutrawong, secretary-general of the EC, said non-profit private firms would be allowed to field candidates for positions in the 11 groups of the selection committee, starting from August 14 to September 2.

Mr Puchong said he believed that the selection proces of the 11 groups of the selection committee would be fair, and that knowledgeable persons would be chosen to join the committee. (MCOT online news)

 

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[chainarong]

The selection of the NRC candidates is not the main concern, the main concern comes after the first democratic elections , one hopes that the political parties involved continue the standards of selection and pick decent people and one's who think of Thailand, Thailand's people and not themselves., in one particular area of Thai politics I don't assume this will happen.

[Mango Bob]

I hope people from all sectors of the country are fairly represented here, including those from the Northeast and North and the farmers.   If not things will never change here.  They will just wait for the elections and the country will just go full circle.    

[Brian Corrigan]

It has taken decades for Thailand to arrive at the current sate of corruption and double standards.Why is it that every one seems to think that by implementing a so called National Reform,that the problems will be fixed immediately? Its going to take a long,long time to change the minds of the 60% of the population who believe that corruption is OK as long as they benefit from it and especially when a lot of peoples standard of living depends on it.

Edited August 10, 2014 by Brian Corrigan