Thailand's constitutional amendment hides mines? Bhumjaithai Party urgent warning: the bipartisan constitutional amendment offends the royal privilege chapter!

Recently, Thailand's Pride Thai Party issued a warning against the charter amendments proposed by the Pheu Thai Party and the People's Party, saying that the two proposals are both Lack of protection measures for Chapters 1 and 2 of the current Constitutionand back Possible risks of violation of the Charter。

It is reported that on October 14, local time, the Thai Parliament has held a joint meeting to focus on three charter amendments-these three proposals were put forward by the People's Party, the Thai Party and the People's Party respectively, with the same core direction: all plan Promote the drafting of a new constitution through the addition of Chapter 15/1。

At the meeting, Parit Wacharasindhu, a member of the People's Party list, explained in detail the core principles of the party's constitutional amendment bill. According to the proposal, the drafting of the new constitution will involve 135 relevant personnel: on the one hand Establish a 35-member Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC), mainly responsible for drafting the new charter.

On the other hand Establish a 100-member Constitution Drafting Advisory Committee (CDA), specifically collecting public opinions. Among them, CDC members will be selected from a pool of 17 to 70 political party nominations. First, 70 people will be selected by national voters in a "single constituency" model, and then the parliament will select the final 35 members;CDA members will be divided according to provinces. Divide districts, and voters in each province directly elect 1 to 5 representatives based on population size.

Parit stressed that the People's Party bill guarantees public participation to the maximum extent and strictly complies with the decisions of the Constitutional Court, while clearly stipulating that the new constitution must be implemented. Protecting Thailand’s “Inseparable Kingdom” attributeA democratic system with the “King as Head of State.”

However, Kolavi Prisanantakur, a member of the Prizethai Party from Angtun Province, objected to this. He said that the constitutional amendment proposed by the Thai Party and the People's Party There is a significant risk that a previous ruling of the Constitutional Court may be violatedThe key issue is that both parties proposed that members of the relevant institutions be directly elected by the people before the parliamentary screening, a process that is in conflict with the Constitutional Court’s decision to “prohibit the public from directly electing members of the CDA.”

Kolavi further pointed out that the two proposals have one common problem: both There is no clear guarantee that the content of Chapters 1 and 2 of the 2017 Constitution will remain unchangedIt is that Chapter 1 of the Constitution defines Thailand as "a single and indivisible kingdom", exercises democratic regime, establishes the king as the head of the state; Chapter 2 details the royal family privileges. There is no official CDA., only proposed to establish a 35-member Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) to be responsible for drafting the new charter.

Responding to questions, he responded to the list of Thai lawmakers, Chousak Sirinil, who insisted that the party There is no intention of amending any chapter of the Constitution.。