(Post Today graphic)The Constitution Drafting Committee's (CDC) current effort to deliberate the draft organic laws to "reset" independent organisations fails to touch on anything of real substance. Changes are likely to affect politicians and political parties as well as public independent agencies that have become more powerful. These independent agencies in fact act as necessary checks and balances to prevent abuses of power by politicians. The organic laws should make clear how to counter balance abuses of power by commissioners of independent agencies. The effort to rest all of the independent agencies by re-selecting their members fails to touch on the real issue.

Source: Bangkok Post November 21, 2016 21:42 UTC