Ticha resigns from NRC and CDC

[Lite Beer]

Ticha resigns from NRC and CDC

BANGKOK: -- National reform councillor and member of the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) Ticha na Nakorn has resigned from both positions without giving reason except saying a four-month time was enough.

In a written resignation letter she posted on her Facebook today, the resignation will take effect on Sunday.

She said she has carefully decided and apologised all friends for not consulting them.

Mrs Thicha, 63, director of Ban Kanjanapisek, a training centre for convicted boys, recalled the day when she was asked to take the job.

She said in fact she had not wished to join the National Reform Council (NRC) but her “most respected puyai” had asked her to.

She said the puyai sent staff to help her with application paperwork, except for the vision statement, which they were inconvenient to write for her so she had to write by herself in short.

Upon learning that she was among the chosen 250 from some 7,000 candidates for the NRC, she said she couldn’t find her diploma to report herself to the NRC.

However she said she was later allowed to submit the document later after the matter was raised by the reporter with the parliament officials.

She also wrote that on the day she had to give her vision to join the Constitution Drafting Committee, she barely made it on time because she had to appear in court to testify in a case which she defied advice by the court and doctors to give some medication to youths.

But at last she was voted the 12th in the 20-member CDC, she wrote.

She also wrote about the salaries from the two duties saying they were very high for her and therefore she decided to donate 40% monthly.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/ticha-resigns-from-nrc-and-cdc

-- Thai PBS 2015-02-28

[Mango Bob]

I guess Thainess has not reach everyone.

[Maestro]

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[tomacht8]

She also wrote about the salaries from the two duties saying they were very high for her and therefore she decided to donate 40% monthly.

How many other politicans can say this from themselfs!

To Donate 40% from their monthly salaries.

Edited February 28, 2015 by tomacht8

[MaiChai]

Some people will try and find some alterior motive for resigning. Maybe she simply got fed up sitting in meetings all day discussing things?

[tx22cb]

The lady might be a bit on the naive side - her job is but to rubber-stamp everything.

It's a shame she has integrity and a conscience.

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[fasteddie]

She also wrote about the salaries from the two duties saying they were very high for her and therefore she decided to donate 40% monthly.

How many other politicans can say this from themselfs!

To Donate 40% from their monthly salaries.

yeah obviously too honest to sit with that lot!

[englishoak]

She also wrote about the salaries from the two duties saying they were very high for her and therefore she decided to donate 40% monthly.

How many other politicans can say this from themselfs!

To Donate 40% from their monthly salaries.

yeah obviously too honest to sit with that lot!

Pretty much, although you could be really cynical and say the Diploma might never have existed.

I personally think she has probably got far better things to do with her time and dosnt need or want the headache of being seen as just another Junta puppet rubber stamping decisions without any input allowed.

[Lite Beer]

Activist Ticha resigns from charter body
The Sunday Nation

Berated by drafters for seeking ratio of woman candidates

CONSTITUTION Drafting Committee (CDC) member Ticha na Nakorn has resigned from her posts as a charter drafter and a member of the junta-installed National Reform Council (NRC), effective today.

Ticha was very brief in explaining the reason behind her resignation as a charter drafter, saying on her Facebook page yesterday that four months in the position was enough time and she had been like "a fish in the wrong water".

Ticha thanked her colleagues and apologised to them.

Reporters saw Ticha - a well-known feminist and child rights activist, and another female charter drafter, Thawilwadee Bureekul, crying as they walked out of a CDC meeting in Pattaya recently.

They had been berated by many charter drafters over their support for a proposed charter stipulation for 30 per cent of party-list candidates to be women.

At the CDC meeting on Friday, Ticha and Thawilwadee again supported a move to stipulate in the charter that at least one-third of local administrative council representatives be women. The closed-door meeting lasted about one hour without any conclusion reached.

Ticha, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, said on Facebook that she only joined the NRC and CDC because someone whom she greatly respected had asked her to do so.

She said the salary for charter drafters was too generous and she felt so uncomfortable receiving it she donated 40 per cent of her earnings.

Ticha said that officials literally helped her fill in application forms for the NRC and CDC as she was reluctant to do so.

CDC chairman Bowornsak Uwanno said he regretted Ticha's decision to resign as she had dedicated herself to working for youths but he was unable to prevent her from resigning.

Bowornsak added that all of the 36 charter drafters volunteered to do the job and the task was halfway completed.

He said that Nuntawat Baramanand, the NRC member most qualified to take Ticha's place, would be promoted to the CDC.

But Parliament secretary-general Jare Phanpruang said the appointment of Nuntawat might not be in accordance with the 2014 provisional charter.

He said it might be up to the National Council for Peace and Order to find her replacement and he would check the legal details again tomorrow.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Activist-Ticha-resigns-from-charter-body-30255094.html

-- The Nation 2015-03-01

[halloween]

If rejecting 2 salaries is a sign of honesty, what does that make the PTP ex-MPs accepting another funded by a fugitive criminal?

And if she wanted to impose that PC 'guaranteed percentage of positions' BS, then I'm sure they are better off without her, before departments start searching for one-legged coloured lesbian single parents so they can fill all the categories.

[harada]

A rose amongst BIG thorns.

[Maestro]

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[chooka]

She also wrote about the salaries from the two duties saying they were very high for her and therefore she decided to donate 40% monthly.

How many other politicans can say this from themselfs!

To Donate 40% from their monthly salaries.

yeah obviously too honest to sit with that lot!

Pretty much, although you could be really cynical and say the Diploma might never have existed.

I personally think she has probably got far better things to do with her time and dosnt need or want the headache of being seen as just another Junta puppet rubber stamping decisions without any input allowed.

yep probably got fed up with the orders from above on how to think and what to vote yes on. These people were hand picked puppets and yes people but unfortunately they selected one who won't tow the line or become a mushroom.

[Lite Beer]

CDC Chairman: New person available to take up post of resigned charter drafter Thicha Na Nakorn

BANGKOK, 1 March 2015 (NNT) - The Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee feels sorry to hear the resignation of a member of the charter drafting team, but a candidate is standing ready to take up the vacancy.

CDC Chairman Borwornsak Uwanno said that the resignation of Mrs. Thicha Na Nakorn, who is a CDC member and also a member of the National Reform Council on education, is a bad news as she has always worked hard to help Thai youths.

According to Mr. Borwornsak, he understands that conflicts of opinions can happen and people need to maintain their stance; therefore, a resignation could be a way to share their point of view.

However, he stated that a person to take up Mrs. Thicha’s post is Nantawat Boramanand, dean of the Faculty of Law at Chulalongkorn University, who is the next person on the list of those voted to be CDC members last year.

-- NNT 2015-03-01

[rubl]

It would seem that in her anxiety to promote women's rights and opportunities the lady Ticha forgot about the principle of equality by law. To (positive) discriminate to promote a certain part of the population does not belong in a charter.

Her efforts would be more effective as item on a political agenda. A policy to stimulate women to stand up for themselves, to go for education, to 'beat' the male favoured system.

[Anthony5]

She also wrote about the salaries from the two duties saying they were very high for her and therefore she decided to donate 40% monthly.

How many other politicans can say this from themselfs!

To Donate 40% from their monthly salaries.

I'll pay you a very generous salary to write the new constitution, even though you don't have the right qualification, only because I feel you have the same views as me regarding what there should be in that constitution. Don't you?

Edited March 1, 2015 by Anthony5

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[mango66]

If rejecting 2 salaries is a sign of honesty, what does that make the PTP ex-MPs accepting another funded by a fugitive criminal?

And if she wanted to impose that PC 'guaranteed percentage of positions' BS, then I'm sure they are better off without her, before departments start searching for one-legged coloured lesbian single parents so they can fill all the categories.

if it was so honorable and she didn't want it, why than she not tell the public how much money is here wasted ??

( seems gvt made a good decision, Give them so much, as they never would reach by corruption !! ))

That will be also the future process with all GVt officials -

give them so much sellary, that they never will think about corruption !!

( to make simple numbers, would be 1 mill per month ok ? RTP sergant ? - you faer your boss ? dont warry , if he boss,

he will get for each official under him another 1/2 mill )