Parliament House of Thailand

After the first general election to the National Assembly in 1933, King Prajadhipok granted the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall to the new legislature. The Throne Hall had previously been part of Dusit Palace. Over the years, as the composition of the National Assembly grew, the Throne Hall became too small to accommodate all its members and the parliament's support offices.^{[3] [4]} King Bhumibol Adulyadej appropriated to the National Assembly royal land immediately north of the Throne Hall for the site of the new Parliament House.^[5] Construction began on 5 Nllocated e360 baht.

The new Parliament House complex is composed of three buildings:

• The First Building: the Parliament House, has three stories and contains meeting chambers for the National Assembly, shared by both the Senate and the House. It also contains the offices of the President and Vice President of the National Assembly and the deputy presiding officers.
• The Second Building: a seven-story building contains the Secretariat and offices of the National Assembly as well as its printing press.
• The Third Building: a two-story building used as the parliament club with facilities for assembly members.

Parliament House was first used on 19 September 1974, as the Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall became once more a part of the Dusit Palace and returned permanently to the Thai monarchy. From then on Parliament House became the primary building used for the National Assembly, only the State Opening is held in the Throne Hall.

At the front of the legislative building is a statue of a seated King Prajadhipok The statue is half life-size. It depicts the king in royal regalia, sitting on the Phuttan Kanchanasinghat Throne. The Thai Parliament Museum is underneath the statue.

A new 424,000 square metre parliament building, named Sappaya-Sapasathan, was due to be inaugurated by the end of 2020.^[6] It was contracted for in 2013 and was scheduled to be opened in 2015. It sits on a bank of the Chao Phraya River in Kiakkai, occupying 300,000 m² of land. The site of the current parliament building was returned to its previous owner, the Bureau of the Royal Household, at the end of 2018.^[7] Construction of the new building, however, was delayed. Concurrently, the project budget ballooned from 14 billion baht to 23 billion baht.^[6] Parliament levied no penalties on the developer for missing the deadline. As the land where the old parliament building sat had been returned to the Crown Property Bureau, Parliament, was meeting in an auditorium rented from telecom firm TOT at a cost of 11 million baht per month.^[7]

Around February of 2019, the Bureau of the Royal Household began demolishing the remaining buildings and was merged into the area of Dusit Palace.^[8][9][10]

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  Statue of King Prajadhipok in the front
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  In front of Parliament House
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  Empty desks at Parliament House
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  Debating chamber
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  Dome of assembly room

• National Assembly of Thailand – Legislature of Thailand
  • Senate of Thailand
  • House of Representatives of Thailand
• Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall – Previous home of the National Assembly
• Government House of Thailand – Home of the executive branch of the Royal Thai Government
• Thai Parliament Museum

• Parliament of Thailand
• Senate of Thailand