Senator Chatwarat sits as chairman of the joint referendum committee.

'Joint Referendum Committee' held its first meeting, discussing the chairman's seat, finally getting 'Senator Chatwarat' to sit at the head of the table. The first joint committee meeting to consider the draft referendum bill (No. ...) B.E. ... after the House of Representatives and the Senate resolved to send representatives to a joint meeting to find a solution on the criteria for holding a referendum on the amendment of the constitution, whether to use a two-tier majority, as proposed by the Senate, or a normal majority, as proposed by the MPs. Mr. Prayut Siripanich, a party-list MP from the Pheu Thai Party, acted as the temporary chairman of the meeting before selecting the chairman of the committee. The reporter reported that the first agenda of the meeting was the selection of committee members for various positions, in which both MPs and Senators expressed their opinions to have their side become the committee chairman. Mr. Wuttichai Kalyanamitra, Senator, proposed Pol. Lt. Col. Chatwarat Saengphet , Senator, to be the committee chairman because he had been in charge of the Senate committee meetings since the beginning. While Mr. Noppadol Pattama, MP for the Pheu Thai Party, said that he did not want to say that the MPs had more legitimacy than the Senators because everyone was a representative of the people. But the mechanism of the parliamentary system gave the final power to the MPs. It is not that we want to show our power, but in the end, the president could not vote anyway. The content of the amendment is in the text, which the president cannot even vote. Therefore, it would be best if the MPs were the presidents. Mr. Parit Wacharasindhu, a party-list MP from the Prachachon Party, said that the argument that Pol. Lt. Col. Chatwat was elected as the chairman of the Senate committee, but if he were to become the chairman of the joint committee, it means that if the chairman of the MP committee is sitting here, he must also be the chairman of the joint committee. As for the claim that when he becam e the chairman of the Senate committee, he listened to many different opinions, he believed that. But in reality, if that factor were to be used, the people who listened to the most diverse opinions were those in both the MP and Senator committees, such as Mr. Nikorn Chamnong. Later, Mr. Prisht revealed the meeting results that today there was only one agenda to consider, which was selecting individuals to hold various positions. The meeting voted by a majority to select Pol. Lt. Gen. Chatwarat, Senator, as the chairman of the committee, while the MPs got the first vice chairman of the committee, which was Mr. Prayut. Mr. Wuttichai became the spokesman of the committee. The next meeting will be at 1:00 p.m. on November 6. Source: Thai News Agency