The parliament on Monday approved a list-MP political election calculation method that favours big politics parties after an amendment that would possess benefitted small celebrations failed to attract the quorum.
Parliament President Chuan Leekpai on Monday morning opened the joint sitting of the home and Senate in order to vote on the amended list-MP election bill, which would have calculated the number of list-MPs with regard to political parties by dividing a party’s list-MP votes by 500, the total size of House after the coming general election.
This technique would favour small celebrations mainly because each party would need fewer votes to possess a list MP.
Mr Chuan said the joint sitting needed 364 lawmakers to register to enter the program, making a quorum.
Fifteen minutes after calling for a quorum for a vote on the list-MP calculation method with the five hundred divisor, only 349 MPs had signed in, showing the session lacked the quorum, Mr Chuan said.
He adjourned the meeting.
The parliament had been then considered to have got automatically passed the list-MP calculation technique using the 100 divisor, the number of actual chairs for list MPs, as the cabinet earlier proposed. The Election Commission drafted the approved method.
“Do not really criticise absent MPs as being lazy. It is a reflection of the stance they have taken on the proposed law, ” Mr Chuan stated.
The particular 180-day deadline for your original bill’s passage was Monday, Aug 15. Without the vote on the amendment, the initial bill was passed.
