By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE ADMINISTRATIVE COURT was today (July 8) petitioned to indefinitely delay an official ratification of all 200 senators-designate, pending a sought-after probe by the Election Commission into alleged bloc-vote riggings and electoral irregularities.
Defeated senatorial contestant Chakrapong Khongpanya today submitted the complaint to the Administrative Court in pursuit of an indefinite postponement to the official ratification of all 200 senators-designate and 100 others in reserve which the Election Commission has already delayed whilst taking formal complaints of alleged electoral riggings and other wrongdoings into account.
It remains to be seen whether the Administrative Court will rule in support of the petition shortly whilst the polling agency is more or less expected to officially ratify the total 200 senators-designate and 100 others in reserve within this week after it had been put off from July 3.
Chakrapong alleged the commissioners have failed to summon any of those who had filed those complaints for inquiry whilst any fact-finding investigations on the part of the polling agency have apparently made no progress.
Chakrapong said he has planned to petition the National Anti-Corruption Commission to take action against all the commissioners on grounds of duty-negligence charges if their investigations into those allegations have failed to bear fruit.
He said Election Commission secretary-general Sawaeng Boonmee had earlier acknowledged those alleged wrongdoings manipulated behind the scenes by unidentified politically powerful and wealthy persons a few days prior to June 26’s national or final stage of the senatorial election but failed to take any measures to preclude them. There have been as many as 614 formal complaints filed so far pertaining to the highly contentious contests.
The complaints mostly involve alleged bloc-vote riggings in which unnamed political wheeler-dealers had quietly arranged for “puppet” contestants to vote in accordance with a slate of certain fellow candidates in the national tier of the complicated, triple-tiered senatorial election.
The rigging shenanigans were orchestrated by those wheeler-dealers allegedly associated with the second largest coalition partner Bhumjaithai under de facto party boss Newin Chidchob.
In addition, the petitions largely involve the given categories of professions which “puppet” senatorial candidates had allegedly falsely claimed to be attached to without truthfully being so, including many who are reportedly natives of Buriram, the largest Bhumjaithai stronghold.
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