CDC to allow media, diplomats to observe charter drafting
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The charter drafting process will be open to the media and diplomats when it begins next month, Constitution Drafting Committee said Monday.
But body’s spokesman Kamnoon Sidhisamarn said an exception would be made for delicate articles, and CDC vice-president Manit Suksomjit and fellow CDC member Mechai Viravaidya would discuss this matter with the media at a later date.
The charter drafters are scheduled to begin work on January 12.
Kamnoon said more time had been given to the CDC subcommittee headed CDC secretary Kanchanarat Leeviroj that was analysing and arranging the proposals before forwarding them to the drafting committee without the other 10 subcommittees seeing it.
However he said the other subcommittees might be invited to participate in the process of scrutinising the charter draft article by article.
In relation to the Charas Suwanmala-headed subcommittee that examined the financial matters section of the charter centred on good political leaders and political institution, he said a new definition now applied to the section.
It was now called national finance in a bid to prevent a financial sector interpretation of political benefits and Cabinet and government officials using government funds outside their remits as before, Kamnoon said.
