Results will be verified when it is certain that the poll commission’s vote was” clean, honest, and legal.”
PUBLISHED: 3 Jul 2024 at 20: 00
UPDATED: 3 Jul 2024 at 20: 48
The Election Commission (EC ) has indefinitely delayed announcing the verified results of the Senate election, citing unresolved issues that still need to be addressed.
Ittiporn Boonpracong, the president, said he disagreed with those who viewed the selection as a delay. He claimed that the deadline of July 3 was just a rough estimate for announcing the effects.
No precise date will be given for the release of the vote results, as per the natural laws regarding the Senate composition. The EC just needs to set aside five days after the election’s last round to get complaints.
The EC did announce the qualified outcome when it is certain the vote was clear, fair and valid, said Mr Ittiporn.
When questioned about what precisely was stopping the EC, he merely stated that the news would only be made once the EC had completed its tasks.
” This is n’t a postponement. The empty work will have to be done before the EC you make an announcement”, he said.
The EC does release the election results as a preliminary research is still being conducted. So, do n’t call it a postponement”.
The Senate’s Secretariat has been given a location to house the 200 new lawmakers who did report to the office starting on Sunday, according to custodian senator Somchai Swangkarn, who announced on Wednesday.
He claimed that that action demonstrated that the poll body’s choice to not release the qualified results on Wednesday was simply a ploy to avoid criticism.
According to Mr. Somchai, the EC does n’t want to be accused of failing to ensure the election was impartial before rushing to get the results verified.
A resource said on Tuesday that the EC has so far reviewed more than a thousand concerns about suspected disqualification of a number of senators-elect and reported election rules violations.
Some folks who strongly followed the procedure claimed to have discovered a lot of strange things. For example, some individuals had never voted for themselves, although they were allowed to do so. This indicated that their only intention was to cast ballots for specific people as per instructions from particular attention groups or social events.
Numerous senators- elect have even faced criticism for recognized profiles that were imperfect, inaccurate, inflated or simply misleading. More than a few were alleged to have relationships with political events or other vested interest organizations. The senators is supposed to be quasi- political.
During the multi-level Senate vote that ended last month, Mr. Somchai himself provided evidence of what he claimed was votes fraud.
His problem concerns four suspected circumstances in Si Sa Ket, Amnat Charoen, Buri Ram and Trang regions, said the senator.
According to Mr. Somchai,” Do n’t ever say you did n’t have the evidence to support these alleged misconduct cases because it was already presented to you along with the complaints,” referring to the Election Commission.
The three-stage vote method came to an end on June 26 when 2, 989 individuals— who had already won more than 45, 000 votes in the first round — cast their ballots at Impact Muang Thong Thani in Nonthaburi.
The new senators will have 200 members drawn from 20 professional organizations in place of the 250 senators who were appointed by the military and whose terms ended on May 10 and were due to expire on May 10.
Unlike their predecessors, new lawmakers are not empowered to join in , legislature’s vote of a prime minister. They will continue to review regulations that the House has passed, appoint members of separate organizations, and monitor the effectiveness of the executive branch.