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NRC Commitee: Majority Wants Thai Ministers to Be Elected

BANGKOK, December 14 (TNA) - Most members of Thailand’s National Reform Council’s (NRC) committee in charge of political reform agree that the entire cabinet ministers, including a prime minister, should be elected, said Sombat Thamrongthanyawong, chairman of the committee. Insisting that the idea was not of his own but from majority of the committee, Mr. Sombat said the opinion would be proposed to the NRC during its meeting this Wednesday although some members of the Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) were against it. Mr. Sombat said he would explain to the Wednesday meeting the necessity of having cabinet ministers elected after the national reform that the same problem would be seen in Thailand again because the country will have the same group of politicians and ministers as people will elect them under the unchanged format. It would be like there is no national reform in the country, he said. Mr. Sombat said the idea of having the entire cabinet ministers elected directly is in line with that of the National Legislative Assembly which had proposed last week and also matched with several polls. He said if the CDC wants to ask the state-run National Statistical Office to conduct a public survey, a question on the postings of a prime minister and cabinet ministers should also be asked in order to obtain the public’s opinions. (TNA)

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