Lawmakers propose special sitting of parliament to consider student protests
Government MPs and a senator have separately proposed a special parliamentary session be convened in the light of the student flash mobs occurring across the country.
In a letter, addressed to House Speaker Chuan Leekpai, Democrat party-list MP Issara Seriwattanawuth proposed an urgent motion for the House to consider the establishment of an ad hoc parliamentary committee to hear the students’ political views, and to give them to have a role in solving political conflict by working with legislators.
