MPs discuss the budget bill during the earlier debate on Jan 8 in the House of Representatives. (Photo by Apichart Jinakul)Speaker Chuan Leekpai has called for a special session of the House of Representatives next Thursday to repeat the last two readings of the 2020 budget bill to comply with a Constitutional Court ruling. “If the special session cannot be concluded in one day, it is subject to expansion until the entire bill passes the House,” Mr Sorasak said. The third reading of the budget bill was passed on Jan 11 with 253 MPs voting in favour, none against and 196 abstentions by opposition members. The budget bill will also need to go to the Senate again after it passes the lower house, but passage in the upper house will be a formality.

Source: Bangkok Post February 07, 2020 13:07 UTC