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Election 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 […]

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People’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 […]

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Ruam 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 […]

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Subpoena 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 […]

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Election 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 […]

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Polling 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 […]

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Constitutional 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 […]

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Election 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) […]

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Graft-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 […]

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Pheu 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 […]

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