PUBLISHED: 13 Sep 2024 at 05: 58
The People’s Party, the ruling party, pleaded with the government to treat the 2017 Constitution modify as an immediate issue.
The criticism doubts whether the promised changes will always occur because the contract update was rarely mentioned and given lower priority in the government’s policy statement, the party said on Thursday.
Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut, the head of the People’s Party, said he will request Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra to stop reading her text and explain why in her own words if the government is unable to prioritize the charter’s update.
He made the remarks during the first day of a two-day combined session of parliament dedicated to the president’s policy speech and the political discussion on it.
Mr. Natthaphong pleaded with the government to update the charter as an immediate policy and move the matter forward in addition to four amendment bills that the People’s Party had suggested.
The contract update did not feature prominently in the speech delivered by Ms. Paetongtarn on Thursday, in contrast to the policy speech delivered by former prime minister Srettha Thavisin in September of last year, which listed it as one of his administration’s five immediate policies.
This time, the statement merely stated that the government may speed up the process of creating a women’s version of the law and ensure that it is as democratic as possible without going into too much detail.
The 2017 Constitution, according to Phuthita Chaianuan, a People’s Party MP for Chiang Mai, is a social time bomb that allows judicial activism and the defense to wrest excessive power over the people.
” This problem is evident but the government dares not even]clearly ] talk about it”, said the MP.
” Why on earth does the contract update now come after center- and long-term coverage categories? And why does the state hesitate to say when it will begin and end it?”
Worse still, she said, recently promised public involvement in the guaranteed mandate update, from designing the contract referendum question to drafting the new constitution, had just disappeared from the fresh policy statement.
This leaves me a little unsure about whether the public will be able to participate in the proposed contract rewrite, whether a new contract drafting assembly may be elected by voters, and whether the promised contract rewrite may actually occur, she said.
The PM made her policy speech in legislature on Thursday night.
It focused on steps to raise women’s revenue and enhance their financial situation.