Amendments to the Constitution: from the whole subject to each section. Open the edition of “Paiboon” and “Piyabutr”

Reforms to the Constitution: from the whole subject to each section. Open the edition of “Paiboon” and “Piyabutr” – BBC Thai

Just over two weeks after parliament voted to repeal the draft constitution amending Section 256 to allow for the drafting of the entire constitution and the addition of Section 15/1, it was the first stop in efforts to amend the constitution of Phaiboon Nititawan. The leader of the Palang Pracharat Party (NACC), who spearheaded the entire constitutional amendment, came back again with a proposal to amend the constitution, each section “5 issues, 13 clauses.”

“The NACC has always been accused of not amending the constitution, it is not true. I intend from the beginning to propose to amend the constitution individually. Because you see that the entire revision has a legal problem But when all the editions were proposed The proposal for each section of the amendment was stopped. But when the entire constitution cannot be amended any further, I and NACC must rush to present (amend) each section according to the intention set from the beginning, that is, amend each section of the constitution that is beneficial to the people. The performance of the functions of the members of the House of Representatives and the resolution of conflicts, “Paiboon said at a parliamentary press conference today (April 2).

The reason for the whole constitutional amendment “I can’t go on”, Paiboon has a lot, especially when he asks the parliament to bring a matter to the Constitutional Court to interpret the powers and duties of the parliament to amend the constitution, as he sees that the 2017 does not give parliament the power to make a new constitution. But can be edited individually

Congress accepted the proposal. And on March 11, the Constitutional Court approved a majority of votes. Parliament has the power and the duty to prepare a new constitution. But you have to do two referendums, the first time people vote whether they want a new constitution or not. And the second time when the draft constitution is finished. It must hold a referendum on whether or not to accept the new draft constitution.

On March 17, members of Parliament met to consider the draft constitution, amending Section 256 and adding Chapter 15/1, Agenda 3 amid the confusion over the Constitutional Court rulings. But in the end, Phaiboon rose to “close the game” to amend the entire constitution by proposing that MPs move forward to vote on Agenda 3, which has the support of the majority of members.

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In the end, the constitutional amendment that paved the way for the Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution was “overturned” in the middle of the National Assembly and featured prominently in the presentation of proposed amendments to each section of the NCCC today.

5 issues, 13 articles

Paiboon said the NCCC has prepared a draft amendment to each section of the constitution and is ready to submit a motion to amend the constitution to the president of the National Assembly on April 7 and ask the president of the National Assembly to hold a meeting. parliamentary. . On May 25 and present the draft constitution that modifies each section proposed by the NACC for the first time to consider

For the draft constitutional amendment for each section proposed by the NACC, there are 13 sections in 5 topics as follows:

Edition 1 Amendment to Chapter 3 Rights and freedoms

• Section 29 Increases rights in judicial process 8 subsection.
• Article 41 Communities shall have the right to appropriate legal assistance from the State to prosecute government agencies. From the original 2017 constitution it is only established that people have the right to sue.But the NCCC amendment project establishes that the state must also provide legal assistance.
• Article 47 solves the problem of the voting process of political parties. Bringing in the 2007 constitution to be used in its place

Issue 2: Modify Sections 83, 85, 86, 90, 91, 92 and 94 of the Electoral System.

• The election of members of the House of Representatives is a two-card form. 400 parliamentarians with a demarcation zone and 100 parliamentarians on the list, in accordance with the 1997 constitution, and to announce the results of the election of parliamentarians within 30 days from the original election date starting at 60 days.
• Political parties that are eligible to run for election on a list of constituencies must run candidates for at least 100 constituencies.
• Any political party has a vote of less than one percent of the total number of votes for the entire country. It will be understood that none of the deputies on the list of that political party has been elected. And do not include the aforementioned votes. Calculated to find the proportion of the number of deputies in the list form
• If there is an election to repair MPs with a split within 1 year, MPs scores are not recalculated as a new list.

Issue 3: Consideration of the Budget Law

• Art. 144 Considering the Budget Law, which originally had problems affecting the performance of the functions of state officials in relation to the preparation of the budget. Revised to use text from the 2007 Constitution, section 168, paragraphs 5 to 9, to be used instead.

Issue 4: Solve obstacles in the work of senators and senators.

• Article 185 to correct obstacles to the work of members of the House of Representatives and senators. To be able to contact the government department Government agency AND government officials to help people in the area. With the introduction of the 1997 Constitution, Section 111 will be used instead

Issue 5: Power of the Senate

• The Transitional Provisions Amendment, Section 270, gives joint parliamentarians the duties and powers to follow up, recommend and accelerate the reform of the country. To achieve the national reform objectives of Chapter 16 And the preparation and implementation of the national strategy From the original Senate power to operate unilaterally.

Paiboon explained that the 13 amendments in these five proposals are those that he compiled from the opinions of the Senator and the Senator, which he believes is an issue that “a large majority” of congressmen agree and support.

Paiboon believes that the draft amendments to each section of the NCCC constitution offers this if it happens and is successful. “It will benefit the people AND it is a non-conflict amendment to the constitution. You don’t have to waste the state budget on holding a referendum And most importantly, it takes a little time.”

“Please give different names to dismantle the regime”

The opening of the new amendments to the 2017 Phaiboon constitution took place at the same time as the Democracy Party headed by Piyabut Saengkanokkul, General Secretary of the Progressive Committee, Prit Watcharasinthu, the progressive constitutional group, launched the “Re-Solution to the New constitutional time “to push the second part of the constitutional amendment also

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Piyabut Saengkanokkul will launch a campaign to search for people’s names, supporting amendments to each section of the constitution in 4 main areas.

The Re-Solution Group is preparing to launch a public listing campaign to amend the constitution by section on April 6, which coincides with the fourth anniversary of the announcement of the 2017 constitution.

In addition to Mr. Piyabutr and Mr. Prit In addition, Yingcheep Achjanon of the Ailaw Group, a leading organization on the people’s list of people, proposed the 2020 draft amendments to the people’s constitution as a coalition. By which the group established four themes of amendments to the constitution to “overthrow, eliminate” that are

• falling Senator follows “Unique Council”
• throw away The Constitutional Court of Independent Organizations with the Reform Authority and audit
• give up National strategy
• to wash Coup

Piyabutr made comments in the chat room on the Clubhouse app after the council voted to revoke the constitutional amendment to Article 256 on March 17 on the reasons why individual constitutional amendments should focus on “falling.” The Senate and the Constitutional Court are two important organizations that are obstacles to constitutional reform.

He saw that the Senate and the Constitutional Court were willing to avoid any possible amendment to the constitution. You will be allowed to correct only in matters that are useful to yourself.

“Since you can’t redo the whole problem Next, we have a campaign to modify each section,” Piyabutr said.