Prit urges attention today on whether the parliament speaker will assist the government in avoiding parliamentary scrutiny regarding the 400 billion baht loan decree after needing to decide if it will be accepted as an urgent motion.
On 22 May 2026, Prit Watcharasindu, a party-list MP from the Prachachon Party, posted on Facebook urging people to watch if the parliament speaker will help the government avoid scrutiny by parliament over the 400 billion baht loan decree. He stated that today will be a test of whether the speaker will act impartially or help the government evade parliamentary examination of the loan decree (which the cabinet has already approved to proceed with).
As is known, the Prachachon Party (and other opposition parties) submitted an urgent motion to propose that parliament establish a special committee to monitor, inspect, and evaluate the budget spending under the loan decree. This is a standard parliamentary practice for loan decrees in the past and does not require a constitutional court ruling to proceed.
After submission, the next step is for the parliament speaker to decide whether the motion qualifies as urgent. If deemed urgent, the motion will be prioritized first, and parliament can consider establishing the loan decree committee next week. If not urgent, the motion will be placed in the regular queue behind many others, making it impossible to be considered within this session without government MPs' approval.
"Today, we will see next week's parliamentary agenda, which will reveal whether the speaker decides to classify the motion to establish the loan decree committee as urgent. For me, if the speaker does not rule the motion urgent, we must seriously ask what criteria the speaker used in making that decision."
Prit also noted that last week, the speaker ruled the motion on the land bridge project as urgent. He agreed with that ruling but said that if the speaker can deem the land bridge committee urgent (even though it is still under study with nearly three months left), then there should be no reason not to rule the loan decree committee motion (which the cabinet has approved to proceed with) as urgent as well.
If the speaker does not rule the motion to establish the loan decree committee urgent, suspicions will arise that the speaker is using their power to help the government avoid parliamentary scrutiny over the loan decree—deliberately using the people's relief funds as a hostage to insert a 200 billion baht energy project. Today, let us follow the parliamentary agenda next week and the speaker's ruling closely.