Constitutional Court not super body: Meechai
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Constitution Drafting Commission’s head Meechai Ruchupan stood firm the panel was not making the Constitutional Court a ‘super body’ though giving it the power to rule over the contentious Article 7.
“On tasking the Court with judging the ruling tradition under democratic regime with the constitutional monarchy as stipulated in the Article 7, we see that in the past although it has been written in the Constitutions, they never said which body would do the job.”
“Then, the 2014 interim charter stipulated that the Constitutional Court should do that and we agree. So, we include in the Constitutional Court chapter that when no articles in the charter could work, it should rule in accordance with the ruling tradition,” Meechai explained.
