Somchai" urges the Election Commission to accelerate the diagnosis of populist policies. Coordinating the Treasury – Bureau of the Budget to help analyze Ting political parties to consider fiscal discipline before issuing policies
Mr. Somchai Srisuthiyakorn, President of Strategy for Policy Driving Seri Ruam Thai Party and a former member of the Election Commission of Thailand (ECT) spoke about the campaign policy of distributing money in the Pheu Thai Party's digital wallet. Policies of many political parties, not just the Pheu Thai Party. Most of them use a lot of the national budget. More parties than the Pheu Thai Party For example, the Palang Pracharat Party, which has a policy of distributing old age pension allowances according to the age range of 60-80 years, will spend up to 2 trillion baht in 4 years, four times more than the Pheu Thai Party's digital wallet policy. The Election Commission stated that campaigning using budget funds could be done. does not qualify as a promise to give The more it will cause every party to propose policies by constantly stacking numbers, which will increase the budget burden even more.
“The interpretation of such policy is considered as a promise that the Secretary-General of the ECT will not have the right to speak first. It should be the duty of the Election Commission to consider As for political parties that have a budget spending policy and must comply with Section 57 of the Political Party Act, which specifies the source of the money. The amount of money to use and analyze the worthiness and risks of such policies. It was viewed that this section did not contain harsh penalties that made political parties afraid. The political party thinks that they can only write in full as required by law. While the Election Commission itself has limitations in analyzing because there is no expert in macroeconomics Is it possible for the ECT to coordinate with the Ministry of Finance or the Budget Office to analyze whether the populist policies proposed by political parties are realistic? as well as wanting the presentation of campaign policies of every political party to take into account the rules for setting a budget accordingly Annual Expenditure Budget Act and Financial and Fiscal Discipline, ”said Mr. Somchai.
As for the Election Commission, should it make a quick decision on this matter? The Election Commission was viewed by the public as being unbiased. benefiting the major political parties This has happened to the 2nd set of Election Commission of Thailand, where the court sentenced to imprisonment for a large party favoring a small party. Because the ruling for the big party to support the small party to send candidates to solve the problem of the number of rights exercised by the people.
Source: Thai News Agency