Charter will not contain crisis panel: Alongkorn
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ALONGKORN Ponlaboot, vice president of National Reform Steering Assembly (NRSA), said yesterday the new constitution will not include a crisis panel like the National Strategic Reform and Reconciliation Committee to help drive reform.
Alongkorn was speaking while visiting the Constitution Drafting Commission (CDC), which is on retreat in Cha-am in Phetchaburi. He submitted the NSRA’s proposals for the constitution.
He said the main focus of the proposals was for the CDC to ensure the charter contained an organic law that made sure that reform work continues.
Alongkorn said the NSRA also wanted the 11-point reform plan to be included in the charter draft in line with Articles 27 and 35 of the 2014 interim constitution. He added that the NSRA did not specify how the reform agenda should be put in the draft.
But he said it was not necessary for a whole chapter to be devoted to reform. The CDC could stipulate reform requirements in various articles and chapters.
Alongkorn said it was up to the CDC to decide if a mechanism or a panel was included in the charter to steer reform, but he did not think there would be anything like the controversial crisis panel.
