Thai legislature holds first meeting, elects president
9 Aug 2014 6:05 AM IST
The 200-member Assembly met for a 15-minute inaugural ceremony presided over by the Crown Prince. Surachai Liangboonlertchai, former deputy Senate speaker, was elected first vice president and Pirasak Porjit, another former deputy Senate speaker, was voted as second vice president.
All the three were unchallenged since they were the only persons nominated for their respective positions.
The election comes as another step for the country’s slow return to electoral democracy after over two months under the junta’s rule.
‘The NLA consists of men of virtue who were carefully screened. An assembly without noble men is not a parliament.
I’d therefore like to call this assembly the parliament of virtuous men,’ said 89-year-old Somporn Thepsittha, the most senior assembly member who was acting NLA president during the session.
Pornphet, 65, was a judge in the rubber saplings case of the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Persons Holding Political Positions in which 44 politicians and civil servants had been acquitted of a corruption charge, the Bangkok Post reported.
All the three were unchallenged since they were the only persons nominated for their respective positions.
The election comes as another step for the country’s slow return to electoral democracy after over two months under the junta’s rule.
‘The NLA consists of men of virtue who were carefully screened. An assembly without noble men is not a parliament.
I’d therefore like to call this assembly the parliament of virtuous men,’ said 89-year-old Somporn Thepsittha, the most senior assembly member who was acting NLA president during the session.
Pornphet, 65, was a judge in the rubber saplings case of the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Persons Holding Political Positions in which 44 politicians and civil servants had been acquitted of a corruption charge, the Bangkok Post reported.
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