Deputy House speaker wants to go ahead with 3rd reading
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But Deputy House speaker Charoen Chankomol said Monday that Parliament should go ahead with the third reading of the amendment bill.
Charoen said he disagreed with Parliament President Somsak Kiartsuranon’s suggestion that the third reading should be scrapped.
Somsak made the suggestion after the Constitution Court ruled that an entirely new charter could be enacted unless a public referendum was held first.
Charoen said he saw that the court’s decision on public referendum was only an opinion which had no biding effect on Parliament.
Charoen said if the government planned hold a public referendum in line with the court’s ruling, it should be held just one time after the third reading.
The Nation
