NLA to vote on impeachment of former education minister next week

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NLA to vote on impeachment of former education minister next week

BANGKOK, 7 November 2015 (NNT) – The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) will reconvene next week, with the impeachment of a former education minister being top agenda.

NLA president Pornpetch Wichitcholchai has issued a command calling for two sittings on Thursday and Friday at the Parliament House. The top agenda for both sittings is the impeachment of Mr Somsak Prissanananthakul, former Education Minister, whom the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has accused of possessing unusual wealth and failing to disclose all of his assets.

The anti-graft body and Mr Somsak are scheduled to render their closing statements on November 12 (Thursday) while the lawmakers will cast their vote whether to impeach or not impeach the former education minister on the following day (November 13).

Both sittings will start at 10 am.

-- NNT 2015-11-07

[BlindMagician]

Any long knives involved? Possibly at night?

[jaltsc]

"...accused of possessing unusual wealth and failing to disclose all of his assets."

How naive of me, after reading the headline, to think that he was being impeached because the national education system sucks and it is producing "graduates'" who are grossly unprepared to compete in the job market with those graduates from other nations.

[Srikcir]

So if impeached the accused will be thrown out of office that they no longer occupy?

With that mentality the NACC should bring charges of unusual wealth against every government official since 1933. Whether living or not.

[FangFerang]

Wearing a shirt is now illegal. The "top agenda" -- really--the top agenda? Not reconciliation or prosperity or justice?

Jesus wept.