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Senate selection process begins
Two candidates were nominated for senatorial posts two days after the selection process began.
Published on January 5, 2008
The two are Lertrat Ratanavanich from the Office of the Permanent Secretary of Defence and Nilawan Petcharaburanin from the Travel Association of Phetchabun.
The process for filling a new 150-seat Senate began yesterday, 15 months after the ousting of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
A committee tasked with appointing 74 senators opened a 15-day nomination period yesterday. The deadline for nomination is January 17. Under the new Constitution, the upper house of Parliament is composed of 76 senators who are to be elected on March 2 and 74 to be appointed.
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