Somsak orders House-Senate meeting scheduled
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House Speaker Somsak Kiatsuranont said Monday he had assigned the government, opposition and senate whips to coordinate and schedule a special joint House-Senate meeting to complete the session begun last Wednesday, following a complaint from the oppositi
The House is scheduled to convene on April 18 and the joint meeting, which is expected to last only about five minutes, can take place at any time between then and the House recess on April 20.
The joint meeting considering the first reading of the constitutional amendment bill adjourned Wednesday night after the parliamentarians failed to agree on a time frame for an ad hoc committee to work on the second reading. The meeting lacked a quorum, so Somsak adjourned it and announced the time frame would be 15 days as suggested in the meeting regulations. The opposition has announced plans to seek Somsak’s impeachment over the shortcut after the Songkran holiday.
