No changes to draft charter after hitch, insists Meechai
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CHARTER DRAFTERS did not make any change to the revised version earlier pulled from the Constitutional Court due to technical errors, chief author Meechai Ruchupan said Wednesday.
Meechai said the Constitution Drafting Commission (CDC) got down to work yesterday on some organic laws after resubmitting the charter’s Article 272 amendment to the Constitutional Court, having corrected errors involving the court’s document submission procedures and requirements.
He reaffirmed that the drafters had not made any change to the amendment that deviated from what they had told the public.
The CDC held a press briefing on Monday regarding interpretation of the controversial additional question approved in the referendum regarding the appointment of a prime minister, which reads: “The joint Parliament shall consider approving the appropriate person to be appointed as prime minister”.
They agreed that the extra question only allowed appointed senators to be involved in the final voting process for a future prime minister for the first five years, regardless the National Legislative Assembly’s contradictory explanation.
