Parliament president Chuan Leekpai has called a special joint meeting of MPs and senators to be held on Monday, the last chance for lawmakers to review the amendment of an election bill that supports the use of the number 500 in calculating party-list seats.
Isara Seriwattanawut, a Democrat list-MP, said Mr Chuan ordered the meeting to be held on Monday -- the deadline by which the bill must be passed.
A joint sitting on Wednesday, which was supposed to be the last on the bill, collapsed due to a lack of quorum. It was an attempt to let the Aug 15 deadline pass without a parliamentary endorsement to block the change to the way party-list seats are calculated. The original draft proposed the use of 100 before the last-minute change in the second reading.
