Four potential Senate candidates filed a petition with the Administrative Court on Tuesday, challenging the Election Commission’s (EC ) rules that prohibit all individuals from using social media and mass media to introduce themselves to the public.
They claimed that their freedom of expression is violated by the regulations.
The four are Panat Tasneeyanond, who is a law educational, Pairoj Boonsirikamchai, a doctor of medicine, Cholanat Klinsuwan, a Television variety, and Sirisak Ittipholpanich, a song.
They are suing EC regulations 5, 7, 8, 11 ( 2 ), and 11 ( 5 ), which became effective on April 27 and have dissuaded many candidates from speaking out in front of reporters or conducting interviews with them.
For instance, according to the four petitioners, Regulation No 7 simply permits candidates to introduce themselves through an A4-sized poster that is only intended for their own candidates and strictly prohibited from being made people.
Rules No 11 prohibits them from giving advertising conversations.
Candidate uses for the Senate opened on May 13 with votes at district, provincial and national rates to be held on June 9, June 16 and June 26, both. On July 2, the benefits may be released.
The four applicants also submitted a joint petition for an order that would temporarily suspend these EC regulations until the jury renders a decision in their mutual complaint.
Under the 2017 contract, the new Senate did include 200 people but will not be immediately elected by the public. The candidates did voting among themselves.
The EC accused users of depriving them of their right to know what is happening in the Senate election by keeping it as unique as possible on Tuesday.
He was responding to the EC’s decision to end Mr. Thanathorn’s political movement’s website, which had been set up as part of its nationwide campaign to support his supporters and Move Forward Party ( MFP ) candidates in the election.
The site, www. The EC detained senator67.com on Friday, which was shut down as a means of influencing the outcome of the republic vote to favor a particular party.
Mr. Thanathorn claimed that the EC was trying to divert the rest of society from what is happening in the senate vote because” some people in power” wanted this vote to be slowly around, as was the event in past republic elections, as he claimed.
As a result, only those with near links to the democratic parties in authority may be elected to the Upper House, again, he said.
His campaign did not aim to elect people who were connected to the MFP as senators, Mr. Thanathorn said, but to ensure justice in the poll.
Sonthiya Sawasdee, a former legal affairs adviser to the House committee, petitioned the EC the same day to find out what roles Pannika Wanich, a spokeswoman for the same movement, had in launching the national political campaign despite being out of politics as a result of the dissolution of the Future Forward Party ( FFP), the MFP’s precursor.