Government holding back on submitting charter proposals
Natthapat Promkaew
The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The government will not submit its recommendations on the charter draft until it gets to see recommendations accumulated by the Constitution Drafting Commission.

The CDC set a January 8 deadline to receive all recommendations, and it will review and craft the draft before releasing it for consultation with the public and concerned agencies.

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam said the government wished to see what others had proposed for the draft and what should be revised. The government also has its own proposals, especially issues concerning the country's administration but not politics.

Wissanu said the government may also voice its opinions on the draft charter to the National Reform Steering Assembly after it had finished gathering views and recommendations by December 9, and submit them to the coordinating whip in the government, the NRSA, and the National Legislative Assembly.

Wissanu rejected the notion that the government was involved with the creation of controversial recommendations to the CDC by the National Council for Peace and Order.

He added that the government was facing major problems reforming the country such as a resistance to organisational changes, legal and financial issues, and a lack of people with decent knowledge to drive reform.

He cited the government's attempt to reform the National Security Council and the lack of qualified people to drive reform efficiently.

Wissanu said Article 44 of the interim charter had been implemented to address certain issues but for several other problems, the government was trying to push them forward via the National Legislative Assembly to get them enactment into law quickly.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/politics/Government-holding-back-on-submitting-charter-prop-30274045.html


-- The Nation 2015-12-01

"lack of qualified people to drive reform efficiently."

Exactly!

"The government will not submit its recommendations on the charter draft until it gets to see recommendations accumulated by the Constitution Drafting Commission."

Was this event somehow forgotten -

CDC urged to reject NCPO proposals, The Nation 2015-11-26:

“The NCPO sent the CDC a 10-point recommendation to be considered for the new charter."

NCPO suggestions weren't limited to administrative matters either:

"Among those was a request for the CDC to consider including a clause stating that the use of military force with honest intention to protect national security against international and domestic threats is not subject to civil, criminal or administrative accountability.”

But no doubt Meechai being part of the NCPO and Prayut's personal representative for the CDC doesn't need any formal list of proposals from Prayut to know what the NCPO seeks in the draft charter. Just witness the same NCPO provisions (ie., non-elected PM) in the previous 2014 draft charter that helped fail approval from the National Reform Council appear once again in Meechai's new draft charter against public disapproval.