Somsak calls for all sides to meet on charter change
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Parliament president Somsak Kiatsuranont is planning to call a meeting with the government, the opposition and the Senate whips to discuss which single Articles of the Constitution - except those related to the monarchy - need to be changed, Wattana Sengp
He said the president hoped the people concerned would be able to meet before the opening of the parliamentary session on August 1.
Somsak's deputy, Charoen Jankomol, said prior to a meeting with 416 MPs and senators who voted in support of the charter amendment, that he would ask the Constitution Court to drop the case against them. He said the complaint filed against them by the People's Alliance for Democracy leader Chamlong Srimuang, is the same in essence as the case the court had ruled on and dismissed on Friday.
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