PUBLISHED: 5 Mar 2024 at 05: 50
A Move Forward Party ( MFP ) MP has voiced disagreement with the cabinet’s decision to reject three bills seeking to amend the alcohol control law.
On Sunday, the government agreed in theory with the Ministry of Public Health’s plan to alter the Alcoholic Beverages Control Act while rejecting three different proposed revisions to the rules, which were submitted by political organizations and Taopiphop Limjittrakorn, an MFP MP for Bangkok.
Government official Chai Wacharonke said they were rejected by the government because they were found to be either too tight or very relaxed.
Mr Chai likewise said the government is also asking the Public Health Ministry to strike a good compromise between improving public health safeguards and supporting the government’s needed to stimulate the economy through hospitality development.
The Public Health Ministry’s act even proposed to reinvent the word “alcoholic drink” by classifying beverages containing no more than 0.5 % of beer as non- adult beverages, Mr Chai said.
” The important concept to get home is the suggested act may be obvious in all aspects, to stop it from being abused as a tool for something which is hardly right”, the government official added.
But Mr Taopiphop said on Monday , that the act submitted by the MFP even attempts to get a settlement between the various versions of proposed amendments to the liquor power work.
” I disagreed with the commission’s rejection. Even though the costs proposed by political organizations and the MFP have different approaches to alcohol command, each judgment in world should not be ignored and rejected”, he said.
But, he said that all four payments will be sent back to congress for the first reading. So, he urged all Members to embrace the four charges for consideration so they can be discussed in detail by a House committee that will be set up to animal the costs.