28 more members appointed to NLA
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Another 28 people have been appointed as members of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA), to fill all of its 220 seats.
The royal command for the additional appointments was issued yesterday. Seventeen of them are either active or retired military officials. Some of them are close to figures in the National Council for Peace and Order.
Among those newly appointed are Lt-General Pissanu Putthawong, a close aide of Privy Council President Gen Prem Tinsulanonda, First Army Area deputy commander Maj-General Apirach Kongsompong, Securities Exchange Commission president Worapol Sokatiyanurak, columnist Taemsin Ratanabhand, and former deputy interior minister Banyat Chansena.
