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Ballot bills face choppy seas, sabotage risk

Members of the parliament gather to consider bills on the election of House representatives last month. (Parliament photo)

Deputy Democrat Party leader Sathit Pitutecha on Tuesday urged all parties to respect the amendment process after Pheu Thai Party leader Cholnan Srikaew's claim that a plan was afoot to shoot down the two organic laws to switch back to the one-ballot system.

Mr Sathit, who chairs the parliamentary committee scrutinising the amendment bills, said the two drafts were instrumental to future elections, and if they were rejected in the third and final reading it would lead to a stalemate because the revised charter required the use of two ballots.

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