By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE CONSTITUTIONALITY of an executive decree recently approved by the Bhumjaithai-led government to raise 400 billion baht in borrowed funding for economic salvage measures will likely be judged by the Constitutional Court.
Deputy People’s leader Sirikanya Tansakun said today (May 6) opposition lawmakers were contemplating petitioning the Constitutional Court to pass a ruling as to whether the Bhumjaithai-led government’s executive decree for the 400 billion baht borrowing scheme may have already breached any sections of the current constitution, thus prompting the judicial branch to judge it unconstitutional and call it null and void.
Sirikanya charged that the contentious executive decree was too ill-defined and ambiguous to effectively meet the government’s economic salvage measures whilst, she said, the executive branch could have instead issued legislation for that matter so that the legislative branch could have examined and counter-proposed the bill before it would have been otherwise turned into law.
Up to half the total 400 billion baht in the sought-after loan would probably go for the much-heralded, poorly-effective Copay Plus project which would merely imitate a previous government’s populist handout campaign primarily designed to promote domestic consumption, according to the opposition lawmaker.
“The 400 billion baht borrowed funding package might probably benefit some people who may not seriously need financial aid whilst others might probably be left unattended by the government,” she remarked.
The People’s and Democrats, both being part of the opposition bloc, will likely not only join hands in filing the case to the Constitutional Court but launch a concerted effort to thwart passage of the Bhumjaithai-led government’s executive decree scheduled for House floor debate and retroactive approval at parliament next week, she said.
Nevertheless, such deliberations by the legislative branch might probably be postponed if the case was formally accepted by the Constitutional Court any time soon, thus pending a court ruling as to whether it may have violated the coup junta-designed charter.
Executive decrees may be generally issued in times of national emergency or natural disasters or may warrant a top-priority contingency to be implemented by the executive branch to address the country’s significant economic or financial crises.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul today (May 6) shrugged off the likelihood of the People’s and Democrats’ joint action to oppose the executive decree for the 400 billion baht borrowed funding, saying previous governments including those of which the Democrats had been part had done so over the past several years.
Anutin confirmed that Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapat will give unambiguous, detailed response to questions about the significant issue during next week’s House meeting.
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Deputy People’s leader Sirikanya Tansakun with a colleague, above, and alone, Front Page. Above photo – Amarin TV, Front Page photo – PPTVHD36
Insert – Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. Photo – Amarin TV
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