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Pita cleared in first round of polling agency enquiry over ITV shares

  THE ELECTION Commission’s investigation committee has ruled that a petition to investigate and disquality Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat for holding a tiny fragment of 0.0035% shares of non-operating ITV channel should be dismissed, TV Channel 7 said this afternoon (Aug. 14). However the polling agency’s subcommittee has still to decide whether further investigation

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MPs-designate verification tipped to be announced next Wednesday

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION COMMISSION WILL LIKELY declare the verification of most MPs-designate around next Wednesday following the May 14 election. A total of 329 MPs-designate successfully running in constituency-based mode plus 100 others vying in party-listed mode have been so far verified, leaving 71 others currently under probe on grounds of

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Nearly 200,000 voters did not show up in advance polling

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters NEARLY 200,000 VOTERS FAILED to go to the polls outside their designated constituencies during yesterday’s (May 7) advance polling, reported the Election Commission today. Over 2.22 million eligible voters had earlier registered to cast their votes in advance polling outside their constituencies in Thailand and other countries worldwide but about

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Petition to probe Prayut’s ‘use of govt property to gain popularity’

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION COMMISSION was today (Mar.17) petitioned to investigate the allegedly illicit use of government property and personnel in a popularity-wooing campaign specifically arranged for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. Somchai Srisutthiyakorn, head of the Thai Liberal strategic policy steering team, petitioned the Election Commission to conduct a thorough probe and

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Legal action could be taken against polling agency over pro-Prayut event

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters DUTY-NEGLIGENCE AND POLITICAL partiality charges could possibly be lodged in court against the Election Commission for failure to investigate a questionable Ruam Thai Sang Chart event held last month, said Somchai Srisutthiyakorn, head of the Thai Liberal strategy steering campaigns, today (Feb.24). Somchai said he will definitely take such legal

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Election Commission still awaits rearrangement of 400 constituencies

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE ELECTION COMMISSION has been still waiting for the Ministry of Interior to rearrange the country’s 400 electoral constituencies so that the polling agency could promptly proceed with preparations for the next general election, said a senior official today (Dec.21). Election Commission secretary-general Sawaeng Boonmee confirmed his agency cannot do

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Over 524,000 Thais worldwide give thumbs down to Prayut, all censured ministers

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters OVER 524,000 Thai people worldwide have cast “no-confidence” votes against Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and 10 other cabinet members who have barely survived a censure/no-confidence motion at parliament today (July 23). According to “The Voice of the People” polling project coordinator/Thammasat University vice rector Prinya Thaewanarumitkul, a total of 524,806

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