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Electoral contestants warned against handing out New Year gifts, calendars

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters ALL THOSE WHO MAY contest the next general election for MPs are cautioned to never hand out New Year gifts or calendars to anyone from now until the polling date. The Election Commission is seeing to it that no electoral contestants will practically break the law by handing out New

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Handout of electoral candidates’ calendars not allowed

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters ELECTORAL CANDIDATES ARE NOW prohibited by law from handing out calendars which may contain a picture of themselves, either posing side by side with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha or not, according to a senior official of the Election Commission. Election Commission secretary-general Sawaeng Boonmee today (Dec.22) cited the electoral rules

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MPs warned against illegally posing with Prayut in campaign pictures

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters ALL MPs AND OTHER electoral contestants are being cautioned to never have any pictures of themselves posing side by side with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha distributed anywhere otherwise they may be charged with illegal campaigning, according to former election commissioner Somchai Srisutthiyakorn. Somchai today (Dec.20) posted on his Facebook page

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