Quorum will be met, PPRP leader says
The federal government shrugged off a threat by the resistance to vote over the 3. 18-trillion-baht spending budget bill for financial 2023, saying it expected the costs to be passed in its second and 3rd readings by Tuesday night.
Deputy Prime Ressortchef (umgangssprachlich) Prawit Wongsuwon, innovator of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), called a short meeting of the party’s MPs ahead of a House meeting held later within the afternoon to planned the budget bill.
Following the short meeting, Gen Prawit said he wasn’t worried about the opposition’s threat to do whatever it takes to derail the budget bill.
He said he or she strongly believed the particular bill would cruise through its two remaining readings.
The House conference would never stop brief either as government MPs had guaranteed to ensure a quorum to always be present all through, Gen Prawit said.
Atthakon Sirilatthayakon, a PPRP list MP talking in his capacity as secretary of the govt whip, said Gen Prawit stressed the need for all PPRP MPs to be present on the House meeting as well as two readings from start to finish.
Nirote Sunthornlekha, a PPRP MEGA-PIXEL for Nakhon Sawan, said Gen Prawit had emphasised that every PPRP MPs must be present at the Home meeting to ensure the bill was passed in the two remaining readings no matter how late the particular meeting dragged upon.
As the government chief whip, Mr Nirote said, he had also searched for the cooperation of other parties in the coalition, namely the Democrat Party, Bhumjaithai Party and the small parties in attempting as much as possible to keep a sufficient number of MPs through the meeting.
He also claimed he had reached a with Dr Cholnan Srikaew, leader of the main opposition Pheu Thai Party, which assured him the opposition would be existing at the House meeting until it ended.
Dr Cholnan, meanwhile, avowed the opposition’s purpose to vote contrary to the bill in its 2nd and third readings as it had required for the bill’s very first reading.
Chinnaworn Boonyakiat, the Democrat MP with regard to Nakhon Si Thammarat, said the government whip intended to get the spending budget bill passed both in the second and third readings all at once. This individual said the government can not afford to allow the bill to be the very best down.