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Parliament President Chuan Leekpai called a special House-Senate meeting on Monday in a last-ditch attempt to save the MP election bill from lapsing.

Tripartite whips were urged on Thursday to reach a solution on an organic law governing MP elections so that the vetted bill can be enacted within the 180-day deadline by August 15.

A group of 16 MPs from small political parties may vote against Digital Economy and Society (DES) Minister Chaiwut Thanakhamanusorn during the censure debate between July 19 and 22 if he does not tackle call centre scams immediately.

The opposition leader Tuesday called on MPs to vote against the fiscal 2023 budget bill, so a change in government can be forced and the country’s future can improve.

The House of Representatives on Thursday started handing out copies of the fiscal 2023 budget bill to MPs for study before the chamber will deliberate at the end of this month.

Pheu Thai leader Cholnan Srikaew on Thursday expressed confidence that the party would win a landslide victory in the next election as nine former MPs and ex-ministers joined the party.

People who are waiting for jail sentences for offences in government agencies or fraudulent actions will be allowed to become political party members, according to a draft organic act on political parties approved on Thursday by an extraordinary commission.

MPs from the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) were on Tuesday ordered to attend all Parliamentary meetings this week after yet another House meeting collapsed last week due to lack of a quorum.

Key opposition Pheu Thai Party indicated on Monday that it will expel two MPs and punish another five for voting against the party line during the recent censure debate.

After Japan’s Ambassador Kazuya Nashida tested positive for Covid-19 on April 3, MPs and senators who had attended an award ceremony in the envoy’s residence on March 22 also had themselves tested.

Some MPs from the Democrat and other parties have taken a step back on the motion to change Section 272 of the Constitution, leaving less than 98 who are still calling for the change, which was led by the Move Forward Party and some Democrat MPs.

House Speaker Chuan Leekpai has given the greenlight for authorities to question MPs sitting in a panel scrutinising the 2021 budget to uncover the truth behind an alleged Bt5-million bribe demand from Sakda Vicheansil, director general of the Department of Groundwater Resources.