“Somchai” believes the announcement of the Senate’s approval will be within the next week.

Somchai' sees the EC's certification of the senators as slow, wanting to show that they are working after finding problems throughout the process. He believes the announcement will be made within the next week, fearing that the senators will group together to collect votes to elect the chairman, hoping for political bargaining in the future. Mr. Somchai Srisutthiyakorn, former Election Commissioner (EC), mentioned about the announcement of the certification of senators or Senators, which is still unclear at this time that the EC may receive criticism from society because the selection of senators has seen many problems, from group division to the selection process, both self-selection and cross-selection, which shows collusion. The announcement of the certification results too soon may seem like the EC is not working and not thinking of solving the problems that have arisen. Delaying a little more time may be a good image of the EC that they are attentive, but he believes that the certification announcement will definitely happen within a week. Mr. Somchai stated that the problematic people may accept the petition for consideration and consider setting up a fact-finding committee and proceed with the removal later, which requires the court's authority, which may take a year. The result after the removal will be promoted instead, because there is already a reserve account. However, those who are removed will have to pay monthly compensation and various welfare benefits will have to be returned to the government. From the perspective of the world, it is likely to turn out this way. As for the meeting of the prospective senators, is it considered a grouping? Mr. Somchai said that it is not strange because the work must be done as a group. But what must be careful and wants society to help keep an eye on is whether the meeting will be a gathering of senators' votes to gain an initial victory in the election of the Senate president or not. Or may it be a gathering of votes to negotiate something? But in the long ru n, he thinks that it may be a grouping to use for political negotiation. But if it is a grouping of people with the same ideas, it is fine. If it is a grouping to create benefits, such as offering various compensations, the hope of seeing senators being neutral, working reasonably, free from politics and interference from capital groups will probably be disappointed. It turns out that senators belong to political parties and can be of full benefit to the country. Source: Thai News Agency