Southern MPs call for debate on southern insurgency
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Democrat Party MPs from five southern border provinces Tuesday called on the government to open a special parliamentary debate to discuss the violent situation in the deep South.
The MPs called on the government to invoke Article 179 of the Constitution to open a debate on insurgency in the deep South.
The Democrat MPs made the call after they held a meeting for over an hour. The meeting was chaired by Songkhla MP Thavorn Senniem.
Thavorn said the group of Democrat MPs would submit a letter to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra later Tuesday to ask her to convene a special joint House-Senate meeting to discuss the situation of the deep South.
Thavorn said the meeting also resolved to submit an interpolation to the prime minister on Thursday to ask her about the situation in the deep South.
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