Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
2014 interim constitution of Thailand: Full text; ... is currently celebrated as Constitution Day. ... (in Thai). Bangkok: House of Representatives Secretariat General.
The original copy of the 2007 constitution, written on a traditional folding book ().On the pages shown, King Bhumibol Adulyadej signed and applied his regnal seal (the seal of the garuda) and the three great seals (from left to right: the seal of the great mandate, the seal of the celestial elephant, and the seal of the phoenix castle).
2019 – Re-established – Return of a 500-member House with 400 members elected through single constituency elections and 100 elected through party-list proportional representation, established by referendum under the 2017 constitution of Thailand. Thus, returning to a partially elected bicameral National Assembly with the senate being appointed.
The Government of Thailand, officially the Royal Thai Government (RTG; Thai: รัฐบาลไทย, RTGS: Ratthaban Thai, pronounced [rát.tʰā.bāːn tʰāj]), is the unitary government of the Kingdom of Thailand. The country emerged as a modern nation state after the foundation of the Chakri dynasty and the city of Bangkok in 1782. [2]
15 July – Thailand grants 60-day visa free access to nationals of 93 countries. [38] 16 July – Six Vietnamese nationals are found dead from suspected poisoning at the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in Bangkok. [39] 23 July – Senators meet to elect the chamber’s president.
The January 2001 House elections, the first House elections contested under the 1997 constitution, were called the most open, corruption-free elections in Thai history. [21] Political parties were effectively strengthened, and the effective number of parties in the legislature fell dramatically from an average of 6.2 before 1997 to 3.1 in 2001 ...
Thailand's Constitutional Court on Wednesday ruled a plan by the biggest party in parliament to amend a strict law against royal insults was "tantamount to overthrowing the democratic regime of ...
The ban on political parties was lifted and the first full elections were held in 1946. However, in 1947 a coup d'état by the military abrogated the constitution and replaced it with the 1947 "temporary" and then a "permanent" charter in 1949. The new constitution retained the House but created a 100-member Senate directly appointed by the king.