Charter will not contain crisis panel: Alongkorn KASAMAKORNCHANWANPEN THE NATION ALONGKORN Pontaboot, vice president of National Reform Steering Assembly(NRSA), said yesterday the new constitution will not includeacris is panel like the National StrategicReformand Reconciliation Committee to help drive reform. Alongkom was speaking while visiting the Constitution DraftingCommission(CDC), which ison retreat in Cha-amin Phetchaburi. He submitted the NSRAs proposals for the constitution.
He said the main focus ofthe proposals was forthe CDCtoensure thecharter contained anorganic lawthat madesure that reform work continues, Alongkorn said the NSRA also wanted the ll-point reformplan tobeindud edin the charter draft in line with Articles 27and 35 of the 2014 interimconstitution. He added that the NSRA did not specify how the reformagenda should be put in the draft, But he said it was not necessary fora whole chapter to be devoted to refom The CDC could stipulate reformrequirements in various articles and chapters. Alongkorn said it was up to the CDC to decideif a mechanismora panel was included in the charter to steer reform, but he did not think there would be any thing like the controversial crisis panel.