BANGKOK (The Straits Times/ANN): Thailand's Constitutional Court on Friday (Feb 7) ruled that the annual budget Bill passed in Parliament last month is legal, despite alleged proxy voting. One urgent task that the government faces is to do more to counter the coronavirus outbreak, with at least 25 confirmed cases in the country so far. In view of the coronavirus outbreak, the central bank hoped for just over 2 per cent growth in the first quarter of this year. This was not the first instance of alleged proxy voting in Parliament. In 2014, during the Yingluck Shinawatra administration, a law allowing government loans worth two trillion baht was deemed unconstitutional by the court because of proxy voting.

Source: The Star February 08, 2020 09:00 UTC