Prawit said Pheu Thai was alone in adopting such a stance. More than 60 other parties as well as the civil society had not said anything in opposition to the current proceedings, he said.

“What can I do if [Pheu Thai] wanted to oppose it?” the minister said.

The officials could do nothing but to proceed, he said.

When the reconciliation plan was first laid out, Pheu Thai had welcomed the move and said that the government was going in the right direction, Prawit said. He was perplexed as to why the party today loudy claimed that the three committees were not legitimate.

Prawit said the committees, responsible for gathering, processing, and forming the opinions into reconciliation proposals, were working in a straightforward way and in line with opinions provided in the forum without manipulating the information, adding he did not know what the Pheu Thai Party wanted.

Nipit Intrasombat, deputy leader of Democrat Party, meanwhile commented on the signing of a “social contract” based on what was shared in all the talks, citing that this was unnecessary because there were no guarantees that their counterparts would commit to it.

But if the majority of the participants, or the Por Yor Por, concluded to do so, he would not disagree, Nipit said.

The politician, however, questioned how the committees would process all the opinions and what conclusion it would bring.

The contract was expected to be formulated in June. Nipit said that was not too soon if the committees had already listened to all opinions from all angles.