MP: Thaksin backs CDA plan

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Published: 1/02/2012 at 10:56 AM
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Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra supported the plan to set up a charter drafting assembly (CDA) to amend the 2007 Constitution, Pheu Thai MP for Udon Thani Anand Sriphan said on Wednesday.

Mr Anand and 11 other Pheu Thai MPs visited Thaksin in Dubai over the weekend.

He said the ex-premier suggested that of the total 99 members of the charter drafting panel, 77 should be directly elected by people in the 77 provinces. After that the 77 members could select an additional 22 members from experts in various fields, including political science, economics and law.

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cepetersen
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Discussion 19 : 02/02/2012 at 12:19 PM19
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I would love to see Thailand move forward in the global community but while this kind of thing is happening I cannot see it happening. Do they think the international community are that silly..?
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Discussion 18 : 02/02/2012 at 05:41 AM18
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Now theres a surprise , a independent concerned citizen speaks from the heart.

I'm confused , I thought TS said he wanted nothing to do with politics and just wanted to left alone to tend his garden.
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Discussion 17 : 01/02/2012 at 07:27 PM17
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The time is right for another GOOD coup.
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Discussion 16 : 01/02/2012 at 03:35 PM16
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D5 : Unfortunately yes. As a taxpayer in Thailand I must say that I am not entirely happy with the way things are going while the convicted fugitive and his criminal a'betters are "running" the country.
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Discussion 15 : 01/02/2012 at 03:24 PM15
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They don’t even try to hide the strings on the puppet government.
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Discussion 14 : 01/02/2012 at 02:09 PM14
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99 members?? In Thaksins logic of democracy that should be 77 redshirts and 22 red shirt friends.....
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Discussion 13 : 01/02/2012 at 01:31 PM13
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Now I know why its hard to get a Busniess class seat on Thai to Dubai as the Red shirt PT goverment spend most of there time there

Thai Goverment set up office in Dubai
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Discussion 12 : 01/02/2012 at 01:21 PM12
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On paper this sounds like Thaksin loves democracy, but he won't recommend anything, which could possibly harm his chances of weaseling his way back as a free and innocent man. He must have something planned so that he can control the voting process with his money. Maybe he will have his Red Shirts bus villagers to the voting station with a "gift" from the local kamnan afterwards for their trouble, and he will control who the extra 22 members are. He won't leave things to chance, for sure.
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Discussion 11 : 01/02/2012 at 12:49 PM11
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Another evidence who the real man in charge is.
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Discussion 10 : 01/02/2012 at 12:46 PM10
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PTP MP's still deferring to a convicted criminal in determining the business of Thailand's governance. Scandalous but not unexpected. It always was, is, and will be about Thaksin and his foreign backers.
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