Thai senate speaker suspended

A Thai anti-corruption panel suspended the senate speaker Thursday for supporting a failed legislative attempt by the party of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to make the upper house fully elected. Nikom Wairatpanij now faces an impeachment vote and a possible political ban linked to the attempt to amend the constitution to reform the senate, Thailand's upper house. He is one of hundreds of mostly pro-Yingluck politicians charged by the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) over the bill. The legislation was deemed by the Constitutional Court in November to be unconstitutional, according to AFP.