Would-be prospects assert that too many restrictions prevent them from communicating with the general public?
Four potential candidates for the new 200-member Senate on Tuesday filed a petition with the Administrative Court challenging the EC’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, and 11 ( 5 ), which went into effect on April 27 and have dissuaded many candidates from speaking out in front of reporters or conducting interviews with them.
The four petitioners said that Regulation No 7 simply permits candidates to introduce themselves through an A4-sized poster, which is only intended for their own candidates and is 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 will 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 the party of denying the public’s interest in the Senate’s vote by keeping it when unique as possible on Tuesday.
He was responding to the EC’s instructions about a site that Mr. Thanathorn’s democratic movement was using to promote in its global strategy to persuade qualified voters to cast their ballots. Only those who support candidates can cast ballots in the poll.
The site, website. The EC saw the website senator67.com as an effort to rig the results of the election in favor of a particular party. The website’s officials shut it down on Friday as a result of concern that the EC laws are unclear.
Because” some people in power” wanted this vote to be over with slowly, as was the case with previous republic elections, he claimed, the EC was trying to keep the rest of world in the dark about what is happening in the Senate election.
As a result, only those with near links to the political events in authority may be elected to the Upper House, again, he said.
His campaign aimed to ensure justice in the poll, Mr. Thanathorn said, not to elect those connected to the criticism Move Forward Party to the Senate.
Sonthiya Sawasdee, a former legal matters assistant to the House committee, petitioned the EC the same day to find out what tasks Pannika Wanich, a spokesperson for the same action, had in launching the plan despite being out of politics following the dissolution of the Future Forward Party, the group that became Walk Forward.