The opposition whip will file an urgent motion to set up a fact-finding committee to look into the senator selection process this week.
Seven parties making up the Opposition on Tuesday met to discuss the appointment of their representatives to sit on a working group panel to draft parliamentary meeting regulations during a joint session at TOT auditorium on Wednesday. They also raised the senator selection process for discussions.
Pheu Thai Party secretary-general Phumtham Wechayachai said the opposition whip planned to file a motion with the parliament president to set up a panel to investigate the process.
All Pheu Thai MPs have already signed their names to support the motion and the party would invite the other coalition parties to join them. After the names were signed, the motion would be forwarded to the parliament president to be put on the meeting’s agenda this week, said the Pheu Thai key figure.
The opposition whip also discussed guidelines to scrutinise the government, which prepared to deliver its policy statement address to parliament, and to debate on the qualifications of Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, head of the coalition government, whom it views is not qualified.
Pheu Thai spokeswoman Ladawan Wongsriwong urged Gen Prayut to take over the leadership of the Palang Pracharath Party to end the ongoing infighting over cabinet seats.
The formation of the cabinet was too slow and all politicians were cast in a bad light as a result, said Ms Ladawan.
She also lashed out at Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam over his remark that the Senate selection progress and the names of the screeening panel's members need not to be disclosed because it did not involve people.
"Although the senators were appointed and not elected, they were tasked with scrutinising important laws that affect people. Therefore, people have the right to know where they came from," said the Pheu Thai spokeswoman.