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Paiboon: Community bill to be settled in a month(BangkokPost.com)
- Social Development and Human Security Minister Paiboon Wattanasiritham said he is confident that the controversy on his ministry's draft local community organisation councils bill will be settled within a month.Mr Paiboon and his deputy Poldej Pinprateep said they will step down from the cabinet if the draft bill is dropped.Interior Minister Aree Wongarya opposed the draft bill, allowing local communities to have a say in any prokects that would affect their livelihood, at Tuesday's cabinet meeting. He said the bill may cause overlap between work of community organisation councils with that of local administration organisations.Mr Paiboon denied rifts between him and Mr Aree, saying "Nothing. I consider him a relative. He is a colleague and we respect each other."Mr Aree also denied having conflict with Mr Paiboon, saying it is normal that two people have different opinions.