PUBLISHED: 22 Jun 2024 at 07: 03
Political families can influence the outcome of the new Senate election, according to Yingcheep Atchanont, manager of Internet Dialogue on Law Reform (iLaw ).
He claimed in a Facebook post on Friday that he had been mistaken when he had previously believed that political dynasties known as” Ban Yai” ( Big House ) could not play a role in the process.
He initially believed they had simply change elections at the district level by hiring candidates to submit applications to support different “preferred” candidates in order to advance. t
But some districts are not aggressive, Mr Yingcheep said. Some little towns have a dozen candidates, which means they may all win at the provincial level.
The vote has three degrees of election: area, municipal, and national.
20 expert groups are able to vote intercellular- and inter-group at each level until the last round, when 10 candidates with the most popular votes from each expert group are chosen to fill the 200 senator vacancies.
Mr. Yingcheep claimed that those social families registered in almost every expert group’s district and that those social families registered their representatives for a contest in Muang district.
At least 15 persons in each region passed that vote quickly. By using this strategy, he said, they could expand to the national vote and have at least 40 individuals in the statewide election.
” There are many restrictions island in Thai elections. They can form an alliance and also compel independent candidates to add them to maintain their candidates secure seats in the last round of the vote, according to Mr. Yingcheep.
It is not hard for the big properties to influence the outcome because the number of independent prospects is so low, he said.
However, the Election Commission (EC ) has issued a report concerning treatments for the nationwide- level Senate vote due to take place at Impact Forum, a convention center in Pak Kret region in Nonthaburi, on Wednesday.
By 9 a.m., each candidate had arrive and sign up for the election. Any delayed comments may be disqualified.
Each member can cast a ballot for up to 10 members of their expert team during the first round of intra-voting. The best 40 of each team will move forward with an inter-group voting.