PUBLISHED: 21 Aug 2024 at 13: 21
House Speaker Wan Muhamad Noor Matha requested an ethics investigation into Gen. Prawit Wongsuwon’s slapping of a writer next Friday, according to the News Broadcasting Council of Thailand and the Thai Broadcast Journalists Association.
Gen Prawit can be seen on a video allegedly appearing irritable and therefore verbally abusing a writer, according to NBCT leader Supan Rakchuea.
After she inquired about the House’s decision to make Pheu Thai Party leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra the new prime minister, Gen Prawit, a former deputy prime minister, slapping a writer on the nose with his right hand.
” This is not the first day for this kind of behavior by this politician… We are talking about morality and the mass media doing its work, which must be protected”, Mr Supan said.
A common may be established to alert politicians to the fact that we are not in turmoil. We do our work, reporting information and situations. If sources or politicians are not willing to reply, choose only state’ no remark'”, Mr Supan said.
The objection made reference to the Code of Conduct for members of the House of Representatives and its boards, phrases 12 and 13.
Section 12 mandates that people of MPs and committees must respect the rights and liberties of others and refrain from speaking or acting in an insult to others.
According to Article 13, MPs and House committee members are prohibited from threatening or assaulting other people at meetings, in the legislature, and elsewhere.
Violators may be asked to apologize or get warned or condemned.
With 40 Members, Gen Prawit’s Palang Pracharath is the second largest coalition group. But, the group’s secretary-general, Thamanat Prompow, on Tuesday announced the formation of an impartial party faithful to him rather than to Gen Prawit. He claimed that he had 29 group members.
In the previous government, led by Srettha Thavisin, Mr. Thamanat was crops secretary. Due to his dubious background, his rebellion erupted, and there is now a chance the party wo n’t nominate him for re-election to the cabinet. After being found guilty in 1994 of conspiring to import cocaine into Australia, Mr. Thamanat was sentenced to four years in an American prison.  ,  ,  ,