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Amnesty bill bids must wait

Time’s up for MPs, no deal for Thaksin

Red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship supporters hold a birthday party for ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawtra at a bookshop in Bangkok in 2016. (File photo)

Parties may propose a bill seeking to grant amnesty to convicts in politically related cases, but talks on the matter can only take place after the formation of a new parliament, according to Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam.

He said it will be too late to discuss the bill now as the current parliament has only a few meetings left before its final session ends on Feb 28.

“There is nothing parliament can do about it because there is not much time left,” he said. “All it can do…

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