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Published on December 19, 2007

It convenes for its last session today and many bills will be considered.

But, there is substantial opposition from those who consider the assembly no longer a legitimate body in light of an election having been called.

Last week, a group of demonstrators stormed Par-liament House, forcing the NLA to cancel its session.

Wijit said yesterday those obstructing the judicial, executive and legislative processes of a democratic country were committing an offence.

"The NLA has already lodged complaints against people who broke into Parlia-ment House last week," he said.

Wijit said his ministry had seven bills pending. Among them is legislation granting autonomy to Chulalongkorn University, Chiang Mai Uni-versity and King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Lat Krabang.

"I believe the NLA will pass these bills," he said.

Meanwhile, Chulalongkorn lecturers' council chairman, Porpan Vachajitpan, demanded the NLA shelve the legislation.

He said the bill contained "lots of controversies". Univer-sity president Khunying Suchada Kiranandana had failed to listen to the opinions of lecturers and failed to call a vote on the issue when she met the council on Monday.

The Nation