Parliament, "Pakornwut" asked about the government's readiness, how much importance is given to the legislative branch after accepting all draft laws from MPs for consideration before 60 days, urging "Settha" to answer questions this week, must be considered a good opportunity, do not think that the opposition is fooling and cursing. Mr. Pakornwut Udompipatsakul, Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of the Opposition Parties (Opposition Whip), said about the House of Representatives meeting this week that on July 10, there will be a consideration of the law to revoke the NCPO's orders regarding the southern border provinces. He thinks that the committee has already considered it and thinks that there should not be any problems. There should be an acceptance in principle according to the committee's consideration. In addition, there is another draft of the Cabinet's law regarding the Science and Technology Research Institute, which is a draft law submitted by the MPs themselves. He has observed that every draft of the Cabinet should be taken back for consideration before 60 days, even the draft of the Pheu Thai Party MPs. Therefore, he would like to ask that in the past, the session has been closed for several months and everyone already knows what draft laws will be submitted to the parliament after the session opens. He believes that it is not beyond the government's ability to know which draft laws will be submitted to the parliament first. However, there is still no preparation in any way. However, it does not violate any regulations that the Cabinet will accept the draft for consideration before 60 days. Therefore, he would like to ask again about the preparation for the linkage between the executive and the legislative branches, how much importance is given to the legislative branches? Mr. Pakornwut also mentioned about the questioning on Thursday, July 11, that he had already informed the government whip since the evening of Monday, July 8 that he would have Ms. Sirikanya Tansakul, MP of the Move Forwa rd Party and Deputy Leader of the Move Forward Party, ask directly to Mr. Settha Thavisin, the Prime Minister only, by asking about economic stimulus measures. Although the Prime Minister could have the Minister of Finance or Deputy Minister of Finance answer instead because he understood that he would ask about the digital wallet, in reality, economic stimulus measures are not just that. And we insist that only the Prime Minister must come to answer. The digital wallet is only one part of the people's livelihood problems. But will talk about other things about the people's livelihood problems, such as electricity bills, which must be related to the Ministry of Energy and many other measures that will involve many ministries. Which must be the Prime Minister because the Prime Minister is the head of the table in the small cabinet meeting related to the economy. And the Prime Minister himself just said last week that he did not intend to run away. If he is free, he will come. And this time, you already know th at every Thursday morning It will be a live thread that the Cabinet will have to stand by, but in reality, there is no need to stand by at all because the opposition has already informally informed them since Monday evening. Therefore, the Prime Minister and the ministers should be able to clear their duties and come to answer questions, and we have to see whether the Prime Minister will do as he promised. And if the Prime Minister still does not come to answer questions from the opposition this week, we have to ask whether the Prime Minister will avoid and delay the investigation or not. And I am not sure who the Prime Minister will send to explain in the parliament for the consideration of the mid-year budget bill, which I expect will be the Minister of Finance as usual. Therefore, I would like the Prime Minister to come and explain and clarify for the public because I think it is an important stage and an opportunity for the Prime Minister to communicate with the public through asking questions from MPs, which the Prime Minister can reflect back on what the Cabinet is doing. 'This is a good opportunity. Don't think that this is a stage for the opposition to seize the opportunity to trick and curse. I think that if the prime minister works all the time, he can explain what he has done because there are many things that the opposition really wants to know, not to trick and curse because sometimes we don't know what the cabinet is doing,' said Mr. Pakornwut. Mr. Pakornwut also mentioned about the increase in the meeting days, saying that he did not understand where the government whip had listened to when he said that the opposition would increase the meeting days to Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, when the increase in Friday only happens occasionally. He had already proposed the meeting this time, having spoken informally with the government whip on July 8th, saying that there were currently many motions and committee reports pending, so he thought that there should be at least one additional meeting this mo nth or early next month to clear up the pending agendas so that they could move forward. 'I propose this, but it may not be a proposal that needs to be implemented immediately because I see that many countries have their own management methods, which are to meet 5 days a week, but meet only 3 weeks per month. The last week, the MPs are allowed to return to their areas. I think this might be a solution if we meet 3-4 days a week, but meet only 3 weeks per month, which becomes 12 days per month from the original 8 days. This will allow the parliament to meet more than before and the MPs will have more time to visit the areas. I think there are many methods, but we have to accept that the duty of the legislative branch should be to come to the parliament meetings because almost all motions are directly related to the people. Visiting the areas is also important, but if we only go to the areas and do not discuss or use the mechanisms in the parliament to solve the problems for the people, those problems will not be solved. Therefore, we have to allocate them well. It is not like we cannot increase the meeting time at all or increase it too much,' said Mr. Pakornwut. Source: Thai News Agency
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