Prawit to ask Palang Pracharat MPs about appeal to Chuan on amended constitution draft

Prawit promised to ask the party members about their motive.
When asked about the incident that Palang Pracharat deputy leader Paiboon Nititawan and the party’s Bangkok MP Sira Jenjaka criticised the suitability of Chuan as a commissioner of the reconciliation panel, Prawit said it is their personal business though he has already discussed the issue with the two.
Meanwhile, government chief whip Wirat Rattanaset, who is also Palang Pracharat party-list MP, said he had been notified during a discussion with government coalition MPs that during a Parliament meeting on November 17 and18, they would vote to approve the first reading of the amended constitution draft, which consisted of drafts proposed by both the government coalition and the opposition.
“As for the amended constitution draft submitted by the Internet Law Reform Dialogue [iLaw] and signed by 100,000 people, I believe it was written by one or two persons, while the rest were just supporters,” he said. “The iLaw draft consists of an amendment in the King’s section as well as a proposal to ‘cancel’ all independent organisations, which need to be considered and approved by Parliament first.”
National Legislative Assembly member Kittisak Rattanawaraha said he had appealed to Parliament that it should inspect NGOs that receive funds from overseas, after he found that iLaw was funded by foreign parties and suspected it might be the group behind the political unrest.
“iLaw receives funding from foreign parties, therefore it could be highly inappropriate for them to submit a draft to amend the constitution of Thailand, as we have never been a colony or a servant of any country,” he said.