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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 09:13:26 EST
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- From: Elliott Parker <3ZLUFUR@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
- Subject: TH: Permanent election body urged
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 00:31:53+0700
- From: Kamol Hengkietisak <kamol@ipied.tu.ac.th>
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- THE House special committee studying constitutional amendments
- yesterday agreed to propose the establishment of an independent
- organisation to take over responsibility for holding and supervising
- general elections from the Interior Ministry.
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- Committee spokesman Pinit Charusombat said most of the committee
- members felt the Constitution should be amended to enable the setting
- up of an independent election supervision body.
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- The organisation will assume the duties of both the Election Watchdog
- Commission (PollWatch) and the Interior Ministry to ensure clean and
- fair elections, he said.
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- A sub-committee will be set up to work out the details.
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- The special committee also considered the electoral system with the
- majority deciding they should be held under the multi-constituency
- system with only one MP elected for each constituency, or a
- one-man-one-vote system.
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- The meeting also discussed a suitable number of MPs but could not
- reach a conclusion.
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- Mr Pinit said the committee would hold a public forum on January 16
- similar to the "Mong Tang Moom" (Different Perspectives) television
- programme to sound out opinions on constitutional amendments.
-