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Junta reaffirms Feb 24 as date for national poll

By THE NATION WEEKEND 

 

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Says election results should be released by April 25 and new cabinet, pm in place by May 9

 

The junta on Friday reaffirmed the dates for its “roadmap to democracy” with February 24 confirmed as the polling day, while April 25 and May 9 were favoured as the respective dates to announce election results and establish the elected Cabinet. Government legal expert Wissanu Krea-ngam, also a deputy prime minister, said that within this month and before the election decree is out, the ban on political activities will be lifted and nine junta orders related to the restriction will also be nullified.

 

The election campaign decree will be issued on January 2, Wissanu said. Then on January 4, the Election Commission (EC) will formally announce the election date as well as the MP candidate lists and other details, he added. On that day, the date will be published in the Royal Gazette.

 

Each party will submit its list of prime minister candidates to the EC between January 14 and 18, Wissanu said. On January 25, the EC will announce all MP candidates from different parties, he added. While the junta has maintained its tentative February 24 election date, Thais living overseas will be able to cast their ballots between February 4 and 16, and those living outside their constituencies will vote February 17, a week before the election day.

 

The election result, Wissanu said, will be announced within two months of the poll, or by April 25. The first meeting of the new Parliament should be held by May 9, when the new Cabinet and prime minister will be selected and take an oath, Wissanu said. The role of the ruling National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) should also fade away in the process. Wissanu said that from December 28, the junta will stop proposing legislation to the National Legislative Assembly (NLA).

 

The NLA itself will also cease legislation from February 15, he added. However, the NCPO will still maintain power to make a final decision on the selection of 250 senators, and the process should be finalised by April 28, Wissanu said. The timeline was revealed on Friday by the junta in its controversial meeting with political parties that addressed the election itself as well as the ban on political activities imposed since the coup over four years ago.

 

The NCPO said the meeting was needed so political parties can make arrangements and campaign ahead of the election, which is less than three months away. The EC had invited 105 parties to join the discussion on Friday. Seventy-five, mostly medium-sized and smaller parties, accepted the invitations while major players such as Pheu Thai Party, Thai Raksa Chart and Democrat Party refused to take part, citing that it was held by the illegitimate junta.

 

Anti-junta parties such as Future Forward Party and Seri Ruam Thai Party also rejected the invitation. Kian Party (Troll Party) led by anti-coup activist Sombat Boonngamanong had not been invited. Sombat was present dressed as a pirate, but was asked to leave the venue on grounds that he had not been on the invitation list and that the party had not been fully registered by the EC. Chaired by junta leaders PM General Prayut Chan-o-cha and Deputy PM General Prawit Wongsuwan, the Royal Army Club in Vibhavadi saw tight security. However, some 20 pro-election protesters present in front of the club called on the junta to be sincere in lifting the ban and holding an election.

 

Latest timeline

 

December 20: Election Commission announces regulations on MP elections;

 

December 28: Government stops submitting bills for deliberation by the National Legislative Assembly.

2019

 

January 2: Royal decree to allow election campaigning

 

January 4: EC to set election date January 14-18: Registration of MP candidates and prime ministerial candidates

 

January 25: Announcement of names of constituency and party-list candidates

 

February 4-16: Advance voting for Thais living abroad

 

February 17: Advance voting for citizens living outside home provinces

 

February 24: General election

 

April 25: Last day for EC to announce election results

 

May 9: Last day for new Parliament to convene first meeting.

 

Source: Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30360014

 

 
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"...The election result, Wissanu said, will be announced within two months of the poll, or by April 25..."

 

Hmm...

The election result will not be announced for 2 months.

Double Hmm...

The Junta will keep the ballots for 2 months after the election occurs.

Triple Hmm...

The Thai people will select their candidates, but do not have the right to know who won the election for 2 months.

Quadruple Hmm...

The Junta will know the election results for 2 months, but won't tell the Thai people.

Quintuple Hmm...

 

What might the Junta be doing with the results and the knowledge of who was elected and not elected for 2 months?

 

Hmm...

Double Hmm...

Triple Hmm...

Quadruple Hmm..

Quintuple Hmm...

 

Hmm...

 

 

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This is outrageous! In UK and USA the results of elections are usually known and announced within 24 hours! What will be happening during that 2 month period! Who counts the votes? Where do the ballot papers go? If this junta were serious about a fair election, the whole process would be transparent, open to scrutiny and completed within 1 week maximum!

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It will take that long because when a figure gets more than two noughts and a decimal point goes in this seems to confuse them . Is that one thousand or ten thousand or maybe hundred thousand or maybe one million, oh dear I'm not sure lets start again 

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Oh, this is just a farce - a total intelligence-insulting farce. Two months to count the votes?! And people on these threads often tell me, 'Oh, no, they could not lie about the election results'. Oh, please! If the Thais and their politicians don't wake up, grow up, 'grow a pair' and call 'foul' now - and boycott this TOTALLY rigged 'election' - then they deserve every last bit of oppression, indignity, degradation, servitude, and 5th-rate political 'culture' that they are going to get.

 

 

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Folks, you're getting a bit over the top here. The 2 months deadline for the EC is the legal deadline to officially endorse all the results.in fact within 24 hours of the election the vast majority of constitutency results will be known and the horse trading will begin.

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Other than the grand hooha's non campaigning, so far, no campaigning has taken place, nor any word when it will start.  Yet they prance around talking up the election that is already looking dubious.  I wish I knew when to be impressed.  Just feel sorry of the average Thai.

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It’s official: Election will take place on February 24

 

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It has been officially confirmed that the much-awaited election will take place on February 24, 2019 with advance voting scheduled for February 17, according to Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam.

 

He said the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) confirmed the election date during a meeting with representatives of political parties at the Army Club. The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha but boycotted by major political parties, including the Democrat and Pheu Thai.

 

Wissanu said NCPO also promised to lift  political restrictions this month before the promulgation of the Royal Decree on the election of members of the parliament on January 2 to be followed by an announcement of the Election Commission on January 4 of the election date on February 24.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/its-official-election-will-take-place-on-february-24/

 

 
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1 hour ago, bannork said:

Folks, you're getting a bit over the top here. The 2 months deadline for the EC is the legal deadline to officially endorse all the results.in fact within 24 hours of the election the vast majority of constitutency results will be known and the horse trading will begin.

The 2 months period is the most crucial period of the election. This period is for receiving of complaints that can lead to red or yellow cards and even investigation of electoral fraud that can dissolve a party. Until the EC officially declared the results, the 24 hours election result is only provisional. 

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1 hour ago, Eric Loh said:

The 2 months period is the most crucial period of the election. This period is for receiving of complaints that can lead to red or yellow cards and even investigation of electoral fraud that can dissolve a party. Until the EC officially declared the results, the 24 hours election result is only provisional. 

Yes-it was a good try from the usual TVF Stockholm Syndromists.

 

They are dwindling in number but no-one could ever accuse them of not "dying game".

 

The whole thing is a farce.

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4 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

This is outrageous! In UK and USA the results of elections are usually known and announced within 24 hours! What will be happening during that 2 month period! Who counts the votes? Where do the ballot papers go? If this junta were serious about a fair election, the whole process would be transparent, open to scrutiny and completed within 1 week maximum!

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Err, have you seen the polling places. Have you seen that many people don't know how to write, but want to vote. Have you seen that many people will need to go to booths "long far" with no means to get there. (or back) Give it a break, wait for the outcome and then get hysterical and outraged about a country you are not a citizen of. Look at the shambles US and UK is in, and then take a deep breath, an aspirin and sleep it off. Not you problem, not your affair.

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6 minutes ago, madmen said:

As usual the bar stool Political analysts come out swinging without understanding the process. Exit polls alone will provide an indication during election day

interested to know what someone faced by a man with a gun might say

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22 minutes ago, Prissana Pescud said:

Err, have you seen the polling places. Have you seen that many people don't know how to write, but want to vote. Have you seen that many people will need to go to booths "long far" with no means to get there. (or back) Give it a break, wait for the outcome and then get hysterical and outraged about a country you are not a citizen of. Look at the shambles US and UK is in, and then take a deep breath, an aspirin and sleep it off. Not you problem, not your affair.

'I am fine with life under the junta and screw everybody else. As long as I am happy that is all that matters.'

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6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Junta reaffirms Feb 24 as date for national poll

Very interesting!  The word poll has two meanings.  It can mean either "the process of voting in an election" or simply to "record the opinion(s) of".  I think we all know which of the two meanings Fearless Leader P has already chosen.  :shock1:????

 

 

 

6 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

Hmm...

The election result will not be announced for 2 months.

Double Hmm...

The Junta will keep the ballots for 2 months after the election occurs.

Triple Hmm...

The Thai people will select their candidates, but do not have the right to know who won the election for 2 months.

Quadruple Hmm...

The Junta will know the election results for 2 months, but won't tell the Thai people.

Quintuple Hmm...

 

What might the Junta be doing with the results and the knowledge of who was elected and not elected for 2 months?

Samui Bodoh - LOL!!! Come on now buddy... you can't seriously be surprised at the junta's continuing antics at this point, can you?  You know as well as I do that there's only 1 possible winner in this fraudulent—rigged—shell game scam of a... 'poll'.

 

The good news is if Little P actually [legitimately?] gets the majority vote, not to worry as his already huge swelled head will surely explode from his massive uncontrollable ego going supernova! :clap2::partytime2:

 

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1 hour ago, Prissana Pescud said:

Err, have you seen the polling places. Have you seen that many people don't know how to write, but want to vote. Have you seen that many people will need to go to booths "long far" with no means to get there. (or back) Give it a break, wait for the outcome and then get hysterical and outraged about a country you are not a citizen of. Look at the shambles US and UK is in, and then take a deep breath, an aspirin and sleep it off. Not you problem, not your affair.

Sure...

 

Are you a citizen?

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Here's another Thai Government Poll (from 2013):

"Thai Government Poll Apparently Shows 99% of Citizens are Happy with the Leadership"

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/12066647/Thai-government-poll-apparently-shows-99-per-cent-of-citizens-are-happy-with-the-leadership.html

 

"Thailand's military-ruled government has claimed that 99 per cent of the country's people are happy with its performance since it took power in a coup last year" - (2013) 

"Of the 2,700 people questioned for the poll, 99.3 per cent said they were satisfied with the government’s overall performance, while 98.9 per cent said they were confident the NCPO could solve Thailand’s problems ..... but the fact that the survey was conducted by a government ministry has raised doubts as to whether it was a truly independent poll?"

 

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Here's another Thai Government Poll (from 2013):

"Thai Government Poll Apparently Shows 99% of Citizens are Happy with the Leadership"

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/12066647/Thai-government-poll-apparently-shows-99-per-cent-of-citizens-are-happy-with-the-leadership.html

 

"Thailand's military-ruled government has claimed that 99 per cent of the country's people are happy with its performance since it took power in a coup last year" - (2013) 

"Of the 2,700 people questioned for the poll, 99.3 per cent said they were satisfied with the government’s overall performance, while 98.9 per cent said they were confident the NCPO could solve Thailand’s problems ..... but the fact that the survey was conducted by a government ministry has raised doubts as to whether it was a truly independent poll?"

 

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After organising a one-horse race, getting a massive start, building up a big lead, they are now allowing other owners to feed their horse and start training. Guess they finally believe they are so far in front they cant be caught!

Most of the posts on all the threads are farang proclaiming that their "close circle of thai friends" all despise the junta

 

If that's the case having a head start means nothing. He is so despised they will be wiped out by a landslide

 

But now posters are saying he has a huge head start and to hard to beat?

 

Is that like having a bet each way?

 

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