“Pakornwut” said there are highlights of the government policy debate, but asked to keep it a secret for now. Set aside time for the opposition and government to let the PPRP join the debate. He did not dare to open his arms to welcome them yet. He asked to wait for clarity on how many PPRP members will join the opposition whip.
Mr. Pakornwut Udompipatsakul, Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of the Opposition Parties (Opposition Whip), said about the debate time frame for the government’s policy statement that the opposition has 13 hours, and the Prachachon Party has already arranged over 30 debaters, and there are small parties that have requested a little more time. The focus will be on the content, which will be an overall debate, not focusing on anything in particular. They want to debate thoroughly on important policies and go into details on policies that the opposition is still confused about, and give time to every issue. He admitted that there are some highlights, but he will keep them a secr
et for now. However, he will not focus on any one issue for half a day, but will spread it out to cover every issue.
Mr. Pakornwut said that regarding the 10 urgent policies of the government, in the past year, the country’s issues have changed somewhat and the policy statement has also changed somewhat. We would like to check the homework that in the past year, even if the Prime Minister has changed, the Cabinet has not changed that much. And in the next three years, will it be possible to achieve what was announced or not?
As for whether a date for the no-confidence debate will be set after the government’s policy statement is complete, Mr. Pakornwut said that we will have to wait for the opposition leader to be established first. Next week, it is expected that the chairman will propose the name of the opposition leader for royal approval to appoint him, and then there will be clarity on the no-confidence debate.
As for whether the Palang Pracharath Party has contacted to request time for the debate this
time, Mr. Pakornwut said that he knew that the Palang Pracharath Party had coordinated with the opposition whip and the government whip, and the opposition whip and the government whip agreed that the Palang Pracharath Party is a political party in the House of Representatives. Both sides will cut some time for the Palang Pracharath Party to allocate within itself, without using the time of any particular side.
‘Initially, it will not be more than 1 hour. Each side may allocate approximately 15 minutes. The Palang Pracharath Party did not state whether it was a request for debate on the government side or the opposition side, but rather a request to request time for members to debate. I did not interfere in what to debate because we are both MPs in the parliament. Both sides have goodwill, so we allocate a little bit of time. As for how they allocate their time, that is their business,’ said Mr. Pakornwut.
After this, will the Palang Pracharath Party talk about joining the opposition whip or not? Mr. Pakorn
wut said that we have to wait for clarity on how many people will join the opposition if we are going to be in the opposition because the Palang Pracharath Party has 40 seats. But if we say that the Palang Pracharath Party is the opposition and will take the 40-seat MP quota, but in the end, less than half of them voted according to the opposition whip resolution, it would be unfair and we cannot explain it to other opposition parties. It is understandable that the Palang Pracharath Party got the 40-seat quota, but less than half actually voted. We think that there should be more clarity. If it is not clear, we will not be able to officially join, but we can still talk and coordinate as usual. -315
Source: Thai News Agency