He said the current “road map to democracy” did not take into account time for such legal detours. We allow time for the tripartite committee to try to settle the differences in their opinion and reach a conclusion within 15 days,” Wissanu said. The panel consists of members from the National Legislative Assembly (NLA), the NLA committees vetting the laws and the Constitution Drafting Commission (CDC), which wrote the bills. “If the bills get delayed because of appeals to the Constitutional Court, you have to allow an extra month or two [for the court to rule], depending on the difficulty of the case,” he said. Both laws recently were endorsed by the NLA in the third reading after many changes were made to the original drafts.

Source: The Nation Bangkok February 07, 2018 18:00 UTC