NLA calls for sitting to discuss impeachment of former Deputy Interior Minister Pracha Prasobdee



BANGKOK, 27 June 2016 (NNT) - Members of the National Legislative Assembly are scheduled to join a sitting at the end of the month, to undertake deliberations on a number of urgent matters.

NLA President Pornpetch Wichitcholchai has issued an order calling on all members to join the session on June 30 in Parliament to consider the impeachment of former Deputy Interior Minister Pracha Prasobdee and to set a date for the opening statements by the National Anti-Corruption Commission and the accused.

The NLA will also review the accused’s request for additional evidence and witnesses, and to set up a committee to work on the details of facts, legal aspects and all evidence and witnesses.

In addition, the legislature will review the draft amendment of the national broadcasting and telecommunications law and the draft amendment of the Public Procurement Act.

In addition, members of the legislature will convene a sitting on July 1 to consider a draft amendment of the Act of Tourism and Guide Registration. The vetting committee has already completed its processes. The sitting will also review a proposal to cancel welfare payments to the elderly and ask the Prime Minister questions on this matter.

-- NNT 2016-06-27

Is it worth me looking up which side of the political fence this guy was on?

PTP

Elected as an MP for the first time in 2001 for the Thai Rak Thai Party. Shot and injured by a hitman in May 2011,before the 2011 general election, won the election. In 2012, he was appointed as deputy interior minister in Yingluck's cabinet.

Potentially a PTP candidate for MP and PM in the next election. Unless he is impeached by the Junta.