By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE MOVE FORWARD has repeatedly called on the people to consider and judge whether it may be “necessary” for Thailand to have the Senate any longer.
Move Forward spokesperson/MP Parit Wacharasindhu today (July 9) suggested the people nationwide to decide for themselves whether it may be ultimately necessary for the country to have the Senate in addition to the House of Representatives to work on legislative affairs, given the circumstances under which last month’s senatorial election has been allegedly riddled with bloc-vote riggings and other irregularities, thus keeping the Election Commission from ratifying all 200 senators-designate and 100 others in reserve so far.
It is about time the people seriously considered rationales for their country to have the mutually-elected senators alongside the people-elected MPs as part of the legislative branch, according to the Move Forward spokesperson.
Parit was apparently responding to a sustained impasse over the Election Commission-held procedures following the contentious, complicated senatorial election with formal complaints filed to accuse many “puppet” winning candidates of having been practically involved in the electoral rigging shenanigans at the orders of unnamed political wheeler-dealers.
The second largest coalition partner Bhumjaithai has been starkly accused by outvoted candidates of having stood behind those wheeler-dealers who had manipulated many unidentified, “puppet” contestants to perpetrate the alleged vote-riggings and irregularities.
Parit declined to say how the people may get their messages about the matter across whilst the Election Commission has indefinitely postponed an official ratification of all 200 senators-designate and 100 others in reserve from July 3 pending investigations into those allegations.
Nevertheless, the polling agency which is legally given a one-year period to investigate and take legal action against any vote-rigging suspects might probably not ratify any of the total 200 senators-designate and 100 others in reserve anytime soon.
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Top and Front Page: Move Forward spokesperson/MP Parit Wacharasindhu. Both photos: Thai Rath
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