CDC is ready to listen to all opinions about non-elected PM

BANGKOK: The Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) is open to opinions from all stakeholders regarding its proposal that each political party nominates five candidates for premiership to the people for acknowledgement, said Mr Apichart Sukhakhanont, the second vice chairman of the CDD.

The proposal remains inconclusive after it was greeted with a lot of criticisms from political parties.

But Mr Peerasak Porchit, vice president of the National Legislative Assembly, said that the NLA should vote for the prime minister by three-fifths of the votes if the prime minister is an outsider.

He maintained that the premiership is an important issue and the majority of the NLA should be required to approve the person to become prime minister.

Democrat party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva he would like to know the CDC’s rationale behind the proposal for political parties to nominate their candidates for premierhip.

He said political parties could accept the proposal if the CDC makes a clear clarification.

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/cdc-is-ready-to-listen-to-all-opinions-about-non-elected-pm

-- Thai PBS 2015-11-15

Yes ...... listen. And then go ahead and do as ordered by Prayuth.

Yeah there old men lost sheep and have no clue or western influenece

There only listening to the Army who also knows not much

Crazy stuff based around confusion

The Thais are seeing the results of a non elected PM right now. Non elected probably means military or an elitist mate or cohort.

In Australia we don't elect a PM, we elect candidates and the winning party gives us the PM. We know who we are getting though, depending on the successful party, but this can change as it did recently, and the public had no input to this change.

Once they have decided what they are going to do, then they listen to the opinions of others...this helps them to undermine the opposition and formulate the best PR to win the most support for their plans. If they could accept any ideas outside of the current ruling clique they wouldn't be trusted by the leaders and their supporters.

"political parties could accept the proposal if the CDC makes a clear clarification."

How is a clear clarification possible?

The MMA system is without precedent in the 3,000 years of governments much less with the added adaptation of a PM list. The CDC is focused on creating an electoral system "in line with the Thai culture" but rejects any adoptation of the electroral systems used in Thailand over the last 80 years.

It's never been the electoral system that failed to sustain democracy. It's been the failure of elected Thai governments to heel to the expectations of the autocracy. From perspective of the Thai electorate, the 1933 revolution accomplished nothing.