NACC agrees to allow 3 out of 38 former senators facing impeachment to continue NLA/NRC roles

BANGKOK, 16 November 2014 (NNT) - The National Anti-Corruption Commission has agreed to let three former senators to continue to serve as members of the legislature or the reform council even they are facing impeachment.

National Anti-Corruption Commissioner Wicha Mahakhun said that even though the anti-graft agency voted to submit its impeachment recommendations against 38 former senators to the Nation Legislative Assembly to deliberate, three of them will not be banned from politics in case that everyone is found guilty.

? All 38 former senators were accused of illegally attempt to amend the Constitution.

? However, the agency agreed that three of the targeted men, including Maj. Gen. Kolachai Suwannaboon, Direk Theungfang, and Chit Sriyotha Mukdathanapong will not have to cease their roles as members of the NLA or the Nation Reform Council as they are no longer members of the Senate.

However, the NACC has noted that in case the NLA feels they should step back from their current jobs, it does have the jurisdiction to make such an order while rushing the issue to the Constitutional Court for interpretion.

-- NNT 2014-11-16

Politics and justice in action......laughable really.........

Reform.............probably no word for it in the Thai language

Politics and justice in action......laughable really.........

Reform.............probably no word for it in the Thai language

So three have already been not only granted immunity from impeachment, but also are allowed to vote in a case where they have 100% conflict of interest.

Well done again Thailand. Showing the world that corruption and cronyism is still alive and well at political level.

I feel for the Thai people who have had to suffer this for decades and will continue to suffer it until some other country eventually invades the place and takes over.

Because that is what it will take at the minimu7m to fix Thai politics.

You couldn't make this stuff up. By the same token, Yingluck isn't PM anymore, so if she is found guilty, she too shouldn't be banned from politics.

You couldn't make this stuff up. By the same token, Yingluck isn't PM anymore, so if she is found guilty, she too shouldn't be banned from politics.

Some more clear info from yesterday

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/776611-three-targeted-nla-nrc-members-not-to-be-suspended/

It would seem its more a case of the powers the NACC has in this.

The NACC should be a powerful group who all politicians fear. It should be the last line of deterrent against people like Pheu-Thai.

Instead they seem to be a side-show whose attempts are open to be quashed from people who can be bought (like the OAG). Having been here a while, I realise now that it has been set up like this deliberately by politicians who want an 'out' in case anyone finds the skeletons in their cupboards.

It's like most things here : ultimately a fake.

You couldn't make this stuff up. By the same token, Yingluck isn't PM anymore, so if she is found guilty, she too shouldn't be banned from politics.

Some more clear info from yesterday

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/776611-three-targeted-nla-nrc-members-not-to-be-suspended/

It would seem its more a case of the powers the NACC has in this.

Right, the article doesn't say if all three are members of the NLA or only one or two. Regardless one would hope they would at least be suspended at the time voting takes place, as otherwise it would be a conflict of interest. And in a corrupt free Thailand that would actually be quite revealing.

Of course my comment was targeted at the fact that according to the NACC, if all found guilty, the three NLA members are exempted from the five year ban due to them not being senators anymore. Yingluck isn't PM anymore so the NACC has now set a clear precedent, one that will be used by Yingluck's defence attornies and rightfully so. The former speaker of the house will use the same precedent no doubt.

Corruption and double standards have a long way to disappear from Thailand, maybe next century. It's clear to me that this lot won't get rid of corruption and is not going to offer reconciliation.

Edited November 16, 201411 yr by sjaak327

You couldn't make this stuff up. By the same token, Yingluck isn't PM anymore, so if she is found guilty, she too shouldn't be banned from politics.

Some more clear info from yesterday

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/776611-three-targeted-nla-nrc-members-not-to-be-suspended/

It would seem its more a case of the powers the NACC has in this.

Right, the article doesn't say if all three are members of the NLA or only one or two. Regardless one would hope they would at least be suspended at the time voting takes place, as otherwise it would be a conflict of interest. And in a corrupt free Thailand that would actually be quite revealing.

Of course my comment was targeted at the fact that according to the NACC, if all found guilty, the three NLA members are exempted from the five year ban due to them not being senators anymore. Yingluck isn't PM anymore so the NACC has now set a clear precedent, one that will be used by Yingluck's defence attornies and rightfully so. The former speaker of the house will use the same precedent no doubt.

Corruption and double standards have a long way to disappear from Thailand, maybe next century. It's clear to me that this lot won't get rid of corruption and is not going to offer reconciliation.

More a case of something lost in translation I would think.

BTW with the interim constitution we do have a bit of a confusion on who has the legal obligations to do or order what. No doubt all will be anxious to provide input to come to a real constitution soon in which all this will be clarified to a point where even lawyer have nothing to complain about.

You couldn't make this stuff up. By the same token, Yingluck isn't PM anymore, so if she is found guilty, she too shouldn't be banned from politics.

Some more clear info from yesterday

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/776611-three-targeted-nla-nrc-members-not-to-be-suspended/

It would seem its more a case of the powers the NACC has in this.

Right, the article doesn't say if all three are members of the NLA or only one or two. Regardless one would hope they would at least be suspended at the time voting takes place, as otherwise it would be a conflict of interest. And in a corrupt free Thailand that would actually be quite revealing.

Of course my comment was targeted at the fact that according to the NACC, if all found guilty, the three NLA members are exempted from the five year ban due to them not being senators anymore. Yingluck isn't PM anymore so the NACC has now set a clear precedent, one that will be used by Yingluck's defence attornies and rightfully so. The former speaker of the house will use the same precedent no doubt.

Corruption and double standards have a long way to disappear from Thailand, maybe next century. It's clear to me that this lot won't get rid of corruption and is not going to offer reconciliation.

More a case of something lost in translation I would think.

BTW with the interim constitution we do have a bit of a confusion on who has the legal obligations to do or order what. No doubt all will be anxious to provide input to come to a real constitution soon in which all this will be clarified to a point where even lawyer have nothing to complain about.

No Rubl, such a key point wouldn't be a case of lost in translation. Considering the people that are drafting the new constitution have no electoral mandate whatsoever, there is plenty to complain about. And no, these complaints cannot be explained away, unless you are dishonest.

But then again, being dishonest is something that is only unacceptable for one side of the devide. If the other side employs it, there are always people like you that offer silly explanations to argue it is all above board.

You are not fooling anyone of course.