Sponsor of constitutional change sees no role for judicial intervention
Senator Direk Teungfung, a sponsor of the amendments to the law, has voiced scepticism that the Constitution Court would launch a judicial review of the charter change bill.
I don’t think the high court would review the constitutionality of proposed change for Article 68,” he said, referring to an amendment of the clause for protecting democratic rule.
Direk, speaking as one of the cosponsors for the change, said the legislature had the mandate to amend the charter as deemed necessary.
He said he saw no justification for judicial intervention because the change would only address the channel through which a petition could be filed to activate prosecution for any attempt to overthrow democratic rule.
Pheu Thai MP Cholnan Srikaew said the charter change was within the purview of the legislature as per the separation of powers between the executive, the legislative and the judicial branches.
Cholnan said he was confident there would be no judicial intervention in the bill’s passage.
Pheu Thai MP Cherdchai Tantisirin said the Constitution Court should stay out of the parliamentary deliberation on the bill.
The high court should heed the outcry triggered by its previous intervention in the legislative process, he said.
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