Is our constitution to be written only by 'winners'?

This trait has been noticed since the NRC’s first meeting to elect its president and two vice presidents. There was not much contest during the vote for the president and the first vice president, and the results came out as expected.
However, there was much competition for the seat of the second vice president. The NRC members appointed from the provinces wanted their representative to take the seat, as the seats of president and first vice president had already been won by people from the 11 reform groups.
The NRC members from provinces nominated Pracha Terat, an NRC member from Chon Buri province, to contest for the seat of second vice president, with Tassana Boonthong coming from the second group.
Although Pracha failed to get elected, he won as many as 88 votes, out of the 250 NRC members. This indicated that many people in the council backed the group’s idea as the number of votes was more than the number of NRC members from the provinces – 77.
At its meeting on Monday, the NRC debated whether to support a proposal by its temporary whips to nominate five non-NRC members — in addition to 15 NRC members — to the Constitution Drafting Committee. However, certain groups of NRC members disagreed with the idea.
The provisional charter allows the NRC to nominate 20 of the 36 drafters of a constitution, with the others to be nominated by the NLA, the Cabinet and the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO).
The NRC members who disagreed with the idea of nominating “outsiders” said the council had to have its own people on the drafting committee, as it was in charge of shaping the country’s new charter. The council as a whole would be held responsible if the constitution failed to bring about reform, they said.
Those NRC members refused to change their minds, despite being persuaded by Borwornsak Uwanno, who was elected the NRC’s first vice president and is expected to become the chief drafter of the new charter.
Borwornsak told the NRC meeting on Monday that in order to ensure fairness to all and more widespread support for the new charter, drafters should come from as many diverse groups as possible, especially those involved in the long-standing conflict that preceded the May 22 coup. He suggested that the NRC nominate five outsiders — one each from the three largest political parties, namely Pheu Thai, the Democrats and Chart Thai Pattana, as well as two from the People’s Democratic Reform Committee and the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship.
“We should allow people involved in the conflict to have a say in drafting the new constitution. I don’t want people to think that the new charter and the new rules are just written by ‘winners’ who are not elected by the people,” Borwornsak said. He went on to say that new rules should not be written in such a way that the “winners” make things tough for the “losers”, referring to those currently in power and politicians from the ousted government.
However, Borwornsak failed to convince the NRC majority, which voted 175-39 rejecting the proposal to nominate non-NRC members to the charter drafting committee.
Critics accuse the most of the NRC members of refusing to allow people outside their circles to get involved in the writing of a new constitution. For those critics, it seems that those NRC members want to keep the power to themselves.
Healthy debate in the council is good for reform efforts. NRC members should focus on discussing seriously and seeking the best possible options and measures to reform the country. That is supposed to be their main duty as “reform agents”, and they should do it without any selfish intentions of protecting their interest or taking advantage of their mission.