BANGKOK, June 3 (TNA) – The Senate Speaker said that members of the parliament can seek to debate the qualifications of Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha on June 5 and he did not think there would be bloc voting.
Senate Speaker Pornpetch Wichitcholchai said the parliamentary session to vote for the new prime minister on June 5 would take unusually long because he would have to let MPs express their opinions and if MPs wanted to debate the qualifications of Gen Prayut, as a prime ministerial candidate, they could do so because they had the right.
The vote on the new prime minister would be subject to regulations and votes by House representatives and senators could not be separated, Mr Pornpetch said.
All MPs would be called by their names alphabetically to announce who they would support as the next prime minister, he said.
“Before the vote on the prime minister, senators will not be convened to discuss a voting guideline because individual senators have their own right to the vote and bloc voting is impossible,” Mr Pornpetch said. (TNA)
