Supachai not optimistic about EC organic law amendment
By The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Election Commission (EC) president Supachai Somcharoen has said he does not have high expectations of the agency’s organic law revision in terms of how it may impact on the agency.

 

However the president said he remains in high spirits and he is ready to represent the agency on the committee, which will convene for the first time on Tuesday.

 

Supachai said he is doing his job and following legal procedures as his agency resolved that some clauses of the organic law are unconstitutional, hence the establishment of the joint committee.

 

They include the clause that would result in the dismissal of the current commissioners. 

 

The organic law governing the EC is among the first of the 10 laws required by the Constitution to be completed.

 

It is necessary for organising next year’s promised election.

 

Although some EC members have opposed the revision, Supachai said most members held the opposite view.

 

The EC president insisted that the call for the establishment of the joint committee and the reconsideration of the law was a rational move.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30319758

 

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4 hours ago, webfact said:

his agency resolved that some clauses of the organic law are unconstitutional,

A primary concern would be to create laws that were actually lawful.  How is this know at such an early time ?

28 minutes ago, yellowboat said:

A primary concern would be to create laws that were actually lawful.  How is this know at such an early time ?

Many would argue (myself included), that any and all laws passed since the illegal seizure of power by the Royal Thai Army, are, by their very nature, unlawful and that the country is being run by bandits.