An Evening with the President of the Thai Senate Nikom Wairatpanich

Buzz (right)  meets with the President of the Thai Senate Nikom Wairatpanich

Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand. Bangkok. November 15, 2012. Thailand has a bicameral legislature, but you don't hear a great deal about the senate, which is partly elected (77 senators, one from each Thai province) and partly appointed (73 senators). No senator can be a member of a political party, so the idea is to divorce this deliberative body from the turmoil and posturing of ordinary politics. The president, Kh. Nikom, brought nine senators to dine with us and it was an interesting learning experience for me and, I dare say, for many other FCCT members.