The Election Commission (EC) of Thailand announced plans to conduct vote recounts in 47 polling stations throughout Thailand on June 11 as the number of ballots forged exceeded the number of registered voters.
During a meeting held yesterday, the EC disclosed that out of the 95,000 polling stations nationwide, 31 stations could have their votes recounted for the party-list candidates, whereas 16 stations will bear a recount for the Member of Parliament (MP) candidates.
The EC revealed the recount is as a outcome of the variety of ballots exceeded the number of voters in every polling station. The EC is concerned this might potentially impression the allocation of MP positions for each political celebration, as properly as affect the general rating of the future prime minister.
According to ThaiRat, the EC has not but disclosed the specific polling stations that will be topic to a recount. However, they assured that the recounting course of might be conducted as quickly as potential because they plan to formally announce the election outcome this month.
On the QT has stirred up tensions on Thai social media. A lot of Thai netizens flooded the official Facebook web page of the EC with vulgarities and complaints to strain the EC to announce the official election result till the EC turned off the remark part on the web page.
The unofficial election result revealed the Move Forward Party (MFP), and its leader, Pita Limcharoenrat, emerged because the celebration with the highest variety of votes across the nation. The MFP and another eight events, which intend to form a coalition government, have already signed a Memorandum of Understanding to align their goals.
However, the MFP leader, Pita, is being scrutinised as a future Thai prime minister as he holds shares in the Thai broadcaster, itv. The latest update on the difficulty reported that Pita transferred his shares to relations to prevent any obstacles on his path to turning into PM..