Wanchai” suggests erasing the image of “cross-selecting senators” to end the collusion in the parliament. He suggests amending the constitution to insert a temporary provision to cancel the new set. He proposes having 200 senators, a mix of 100 elected and selected from each profession.
Mr. Wanchai Sonsiri, Senator, posted a message on his personal Facebook saying, ‘It’s over with the Senate set up… the collusion council, the color council.’ It’s over with the Senate set up… the collusion council, the color council. It must be accepted that this kind of senator selection doesn’t work. The process opens the way for collusion, blocking, and establishment, and then we get people who become senators as we see. It’s shameful and shameful, making the Senate low-value. Senators don’t have much value because they are covered up by the method they were chosen. People devalue the senators who were chosen this way. It seems like this will be the last election. Everyone can see clearly that it doesn’t work.
Mr. Wancha
i stated that whether we will still have senators or not, if we do, what method will we use? Will we use elections for all of them? We will get senators of different colors, both small and big families, relatives will follow each other to join, forming a colored council like different train lines. If we appoint all of them, we will be criticized in various ways. There are only two ways: to have senators or not. If we see that it is not necessary or not useful, we can have only one council. We can do it like that. Or if it is necessary to have a council to screen and inspect, we must continue to have senators.
Mr. Wanchai continued that he thought that there were still two types of MPs: elected from constituencies and party-list MPs, in order to mix them together to create a balance of knowledge and ability. If there were to be senators, they should be in that manner: elect 100 people and select 100 people from their professions, by adding about 12-15 people to the selection committee from independent organiz
ations and professional councils, the media council, and the faculty council, like the 2007 constitution, but with a more diverse and transparent selection committee, which would result in senators from both the elected and the knowledge and ability from various professions, which would make the senators look good and valuable, and would have people who could screen and inspect them very well.
“Since we are going to amend the constitution, let’s amend the matter of electing senators as well. There will be a temporary provision to terminate this senator group and have a new senator group according to the amended constitution, which will result in senators who meet the needs of the people and who are knowledgeable and capable, which will make the Senate valuable and have weight. Those who will become senators will be proud of it. The end of the blue, orange, and red senators, the collusion council, the establishment council,” said Mr. Wanchai. -319.-Thai News Agency
Source: Thai News Agency