Chuan requests special permission to discuss in the parliament and asks the Speaker to follow up with ministers to respond to consultation letters within the 30-day timeframe, while warning the government to urgently contain unrest in Thung Wa District, Satun, fearing it might spread to the Andaman coast, repeating negligence seen in the southern insurgency.
At the parliament on 12 Nov 2026 GMT+7, during the House of Representatives meeting, Speaker Sopon Sarum granted special permission to Mr. Chuan Leekpai, a party-list MP from the Democrat Party and former parliament speaker, to raise urgent issues concerning public distress before the assembly.
Mr. Chuan thanked the Speaker for allowing members to submit written consultation requests, which saves considerable parliamentary time. He then presented two urgent topics for discussion.
First, he requested that the Speaker follow up and demand explanations from relevant ministers within the 30-day deadline, noting that most consultation requests submitted by members have not received timely responses as required by House rules, Article 24.
Second, Mr. Chuan expressed deep concern over the unrest in Thung Wa District, Satun, which he had already submitted in writing. He urged the Speaker to promptly forward this matter to the government, emphasizing it as a serious security issue. Typically, unrest is confined to the three southern border provinces—Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat—and parts of Songkhla, but Satun on the west coast has never experienced such incidents before.
"The situation in Satun's Thung Wa requires urgent consideration; otherwise, serious security problems may follow, similar to past negligence that led to violence in the southern border provinces," Mr. Chuan said.
After the discussion, Speaker Sopon praised and thanked Mr. Chuan Leekpai for setting a good example by regularly raising public grievances through written submissions.