Chairs ‘pre-selected’, say minority groups
PUBLISHED : 24 Sep 2024 at 04:00
Minority senators have cried foul over a “seat grab” they claim was engineered by unfair and unsuitable seat allocations for Senate standing committees.
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Chairs ‘pre-selected’, say minority groups
PUBLISHED : 24 Sep 2024 at 04:00
Minority senators have cried foul over a “seat grab” they claim was engineered by unfair and unsuitable seat allocations for Senate standing committees.
Senators with fewer affiliations said they had been sidelined by bloc voting organised by fellow senators with strong ties to take seats on 21 standing committees that should have been fairly distributed.
During yesterday’s meeting, Tewarit Maneechai, a senator from the media profession, asked that he and the rest of the…