AN ACTIVIST group and a lawyers association held three sports competitions in front of the Election Commission office to demand that the agency take legal action against 229 suspects in the 2024 senatorial rigging conspiracy, Naewna newspaper said late afternoon today (Aug. 30). The polling agency last Friday postponed to Sept. 14 announcing its
Tag: Commission
Election commissioners tipped to take risk of jail over senatorial rigging conspiracy
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION commissioners would be inclined to keep most suspects in the 2024 senatorial rigging allegations intact and unprosecuted, albeit at the risk of being finally found guilty in court on charges of duty negligence and misconduct which could possibly land themselves terms in prison, a partisan source said today
Read moreSihasak optimistic as Australian diplomat is chosen to preside over Thai-Cambodian conciliation
DEPUTY Prime Minister-cum-Foreign Affairs Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow expressed confidence in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea’s (UNCLOS’s) Conciliation Commission tasked with helping resolve a maritime dispute with Cambodia after Australian diplomat and legal expert Katrina Cooper was appointed the fifth conciliator and the chair, PPTVHD36 said this evening (Aug. 15).
Read moreElection commissioners warned of risk of jail over senatorial rigging conspiracy
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION commissioners were today (July 22) encouraged to give up performing in double standard fashion whilst handling the senatorial rigging conspiracy allegedly involving Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and several Bhumjaithai members of cabinet, among others, or else they themselves could probably risk being put behind bars, according to chief
Read moreElection Commission to get sued unless senatorial rigging case forwarded to court
By Thai Newsroom Reporters LEGAL ACTION will certainly be taken against the Election Commission if the polling agency fails to forward a sensational, senatorial rigging lawsuit to court, the People’s spokesman Parit Wacharasindhu confirmed today (March 16). A duty-negligence and misconduct lawsuit will be definitely filed against the commissioners if they eventually fail to
Read morePeople’s to file duty-negligence, misconduct lawsuit against Election Commission
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE PEOPLE’S will shortly file a criminal lawsuit against the Election Commission on duty-negligence and misconduct charges, resulting in the polling agency’s alleged failure to hold a clean and fair election due to the questionable existence of barcodes and QR codes on voting ballots, People’s leader Nattapong Ruengpanyawut confirmed today
Read moreRuam Thai Sang Chart faces party dissolution bid
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE RUAM THAI SANG CHART, the currently second largest coalition partner of the Pheu Thai-led government, has been thrown into a pivotal legal battle with a fresh petition filed today (June 25) in pursuit of dissolution of the ultra-conservative party and a political ban to all the party’s executive board
Read moreSubpoena issued for Bhumjaithai’s current cabinet member, ex-deputy House speaker
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A SUBPOENA has been issued for Deputy Commerce Minister Napinthorn Srisanpang for questioning by the authorities due to his being initially charged with involvement in unprecedented vote-rigging, bloc-voting, money-laundering conspiracies over last year’s senatorial elections. The Election Commission has issued the subpoena for Napinthorn, the cabinet member attached to the
Read moreElection Commission pressed again to suspend Sawaeng over senatorial rigging scandals
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A GROUP OF PERSONS in reserve position for senators today (April 2) repeated their formal petition for the Election Commission to immediately suspend the polling agency’s secretary-general Sawaeng Boonmee from work, pending an in-depth probe into his duty-negligence charges pertaining to last year’s senatorial rigging scandals. The petitioners revisited the
Read morePolling agency urged to suspend Sawaeng over senatorial rigging scandals
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION COMMISSION was today (March 19) appealed to indefinitely suspend the polling agency’s secretary-general Sawaeng Boonmee from work, pending probe into duty-negligence charges filed against him. A group of reserve senators today petitioned Election Commission Chair Itthiporn Boonprakhong to indefinitely suspend Sawaeng from performing his official duties, pending the
Read moreConstitutional Court urged to hold polling agency guilty, annul senatorial races
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT was today (March 12) pleaded to hold the Election Commission guilty of failure to hold last year’s senatorial elections in fair and clean fashion and to declare the notorious races to parliament null and void, albeit in retroactive fashion. Nataporn Toprayoon, a former adviser to the Office
Read moreElection Commission being pressed to suspend secretary-general
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION COMMISSION is being pressed to suspend its secretary-general Sawaeng Boonmee from officially performing, pending probe into last year’s senatorial rigging scandals about which he has reportedly done nothing as yet. A group of reserve senators plans to call on the Election Commission at the headquarters tomorrow (March 12)
Read moreGraft-busters setting up panel to probe Thaksin’s alleged fake-out at Police Hospital
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN AD HOC COMMITTEE under the National Anti-Corruption Commission will be set up shortly to investigate allegations that a dozen government officials had unduly helped de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra stage a fake-out as a patient with “critical illnesses” at Police Hospital. The anti-graft agency has finally resolved
Read morePheu Thai still being probed over alleged political party law violation
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A FACT-FINDING COMMITTEE under care of the Election Commission is continuing to investigate allegations that the Pheu Thai had breached the Political Party Act despite the Constitutional Court’s latest judgment to lift rule-undermining charges against the ruling party, according to a senior official of the polling agency. Election Commission Secretary-General
Read moreCommittee to probe allegations over Thaksin’s illicit power play
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN AD HOC COMMITTEE will likely be set up by the Election Commission to look into allegations that de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra had illicitly dominated and steered the largest ruling party, albeit in behind-the-scenes fashion, as well as unlawfully exerted influence on other current coalition partners. Election
Read moreSawaeng lambasted for speaking in defence of Bhumjaithai
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ELECTION COMMISSION Secretary-General Sawaeng Boonmee was today (Oct, 2) vehemently condemned for verbally defending the Bhumjaithai over a lawsuit earlier filed and yet delayed in pursuit of dissolution of the second largest coalition party. Patrapong Supaksorn, the lawyer who had filed the lawsuit against the Bhumjaithai under de facto party
Read morePareena ordered by court to cover by-election expenditure
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER OUTSPOKEN WOMAN MP Pareena Kraikupt was today (Mar. 18) ordered by court to pay a sum of 7.6 million baht in cash to cover the Election Commission’s expenses on a by-election to replace her a couple of years ago. The Ratchaburi Provincial Court delivered the order as earlier requested
Read moreDissolution of Bhumjaithai sought over Saksayam’s convicted wrongdoing
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION COMMISSION was today (Jan.19) petitioned to forward a criminal case to the Constitutional Court in pursuit of a dissolution of the Bhumjaithai following the court-convicted wrongdoing of Saksayam Chidchob, former secretary-general of the second largest coalition partner. The petition submitted to the polling agency by activist lawyer Patrapong
Read morePheu Thai MP in hot water over allegedly posting campaign speech online
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PHEU THAI MP PATTANA Sappaso was today (Dec.15) charged with breaking the election law by posting content of a vote-wooing campaign speech online during prohibited hours ahead of last May’s general election. The Election Commission pressed the criminal charge against the Pheu Thai MP of Sakon Nakhon who had allegedly
Read moreProtesters blast Election Commission for filing lawsuit against Pita
DEMONSTRATORS flocked to the open space in front of Bangkok Art & Cultural Centre this evening (July 12) to protest against the Election Commission after the agency decided to file an MP-disqualifying lawsuit against Move Forward leader/prime minister-designate Pita Limjaroenrat at the Constitutional Court, Matichon newspaper said. The prime minister-designate has been accused by
Read more