NLA committee seeks to change Senate selection process
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The National Legislative Assembly’s law-vetting committee has decided to cut the number of professional groups for the selection of senators from 20 to five or 10, its spokesperson Admiral Tharathorn Kajitsuwan said on Wednesday.
The committee is also considering whether to change the process from a cross-selection between groups to a selection from within groups.
The committee viewed that the change would not contradict the charter, as it does not specifically address that the selection must be a cross-selection.
Chief charter drafter Meechai Ruchupan said changes to the selection process for senators would prompt claims of conspiracy and fraud, thus contradicting the charter.
