By Thai Newsroom Reporters
PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul was today (July 7) advised either to dissolve the House of Representatives or to resign if the Bhumjaithai-led government’s executive decree supposedly designed to address economic woes was ruled by the Constitutional Court as unconstitutional on the upcoming Thursday.
Deputy People’s leader/MP Parit Wacharasindhu insisted that the prime minister should immediately take political responsibility if the government’s contentious executive decree was denied by the Constitutional Court simply by either dissolving the House to call a general election or stepping down.
The questionable executive decree which is warranting a maximum of 400 billion baht in borrowed funding for the government’s policies and measures to solve the country’s economic hardships could possibly backfire with a court judgment as being unconstitutional, thus immediately rendering it ineffective.
Half of the 400 billion baht loan package which was supposedly aimed at financing the government’s measures toward the energy management crisis as well as oil and natural gas price increases may not be deemed by court as justifiable on the basis of necessity or emergency.
However, executive decrees may be issued and implemented by the executive branch before they are retroactively approved at a later date by the legislative branch.
Though part of the loan package is being currently used to finance the populist Thai Chuay (help) Thai copay project, a sizeable chunk of the borrowed fund amounting to as much as 200 billion baht could possibly be funneled to finance the government’s other schemes which may be surreptitiously designed to boost undue popularity for the Bhumjaithai, currently the ultra-conservative core of the coalition government, among constituents in all parts of the country but may not be substantially related to those primarily designed to solve economic hardships on necessity or emergency basis, according to the People’s MP.
Nevertheless, the Bhumjaithai-attached Anutin has never commented in public as to whether he may consider dissolving the House to call a general election or stepping down if the executive decree, generally considered as one of the government’s significant, decisive bills, was eventually rejected and declared unconstitutional by court.
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Top and Front Page: Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul. Both photos – Amarin TV
Insert: Deputy People’s leader/MP Parit Wacharasindhu. Photo – PPTVHD36
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