EC says no to ‘Grean Party’

By THE NATION

 

 

THE ELECTION Commission has rejected the name of Sombat Boonngamanong’s Grean Party as it believes the name could “disturb people’s order or morality”.

 

“According to the Royal Institute Dictionary of New Words, 2nd book, Grean is defined to describe aggressive, agitating and unreasonable people,” the EC acting secretary-general and party registrar Charungwit Phumma explained in a letter to Sombat.

 

“Naming a party as ‘Grean Party’, meanwhile, could bring confusion to society as the meaning could be inappropriate and disturb people’s order or morality,” the letter said, adding the naming could violate the organic law on political party and the EC regulation on political party.

 

The EC told Sombat to fix the name to be “accurate with appropriate meaning” and resubmit within 15 days.

Failure to do so would mean Sombat’s party would not be registered, it warned.

 

Sombat, who shared photos of the two-page letter on his Facebook status, said on the same post that he plans to either go to the EC headquarters to fix the name or to file an objection petition with the Administrative Court.

 

According to Article 18 of the political party organic law, a party’s name, abbreviation and logo must not object to or change the constitutional monarchy regime, disturb people’s order or morality, tend to create fractions among people of the country and influence or obstruct the MPs’ independent operation.

 

Positioned as an alternative party, the Grean Party intended to “disrupt any party policies” by making suggestions with focus on benefits of social minorities, which Sombat thinks has been overlooked by most of parties at the national level.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/politics/30344648

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-05-05

4 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

“Naming a party as ‘Grean Party’, meanwhile, could bring confusion to society as the meaning could be inappropriate and disturb people’s order or morality,” the letter said,

my hope for this places continues to fade; the name of a party impacts overall morality ??

Grean Party verses the Greed Parties.......I wonder who will win that one?

Red,yellow,green all very confusing colours to Thais,just like a set of traffic lights.the rainbow party might of sounded better with a crock of gold at the end of it,giving the voters some hope and would make lovely coloured t shirts.

Edited May 5, 20188 yr by happy chappie
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They all ready have a green party. It's the one that kicks out all the elected parties and then refuses to go away.

What is the appropriate Thai pronounciation of
“Grean” ?

Silly people all they had to say is they will support the General and the Junta in the whenever coming election !

I wonder whether the EC would accept " The Monster Raving Loony Party" which has contested every UK General Election since it was founded by Screaming Lord Sutch in 1983! Surely the whole essence of democratic elections is that anyone can stand for Parliament and that the people should be allowed to decide! What's in a name anyway, it is the policies that count.

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I thought it meant they were environmentally friendly.

15 minutes ago, graemeaylward said:

I wonder whether the EC would accept " The Monster Raving Loony Party" which has contested every UK General Election since it was founded by Screaming Lord Sutch in 1983! Surely the whole essence of democratic elections is that anyone can stand for Parliament and that the people should be allowed to decide! What's in a name anyway, it is the policies that count.

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These are the people who oversee the EC. What do you reckon...?

I don't know why but this sketch came to mind......

 

 

These are the people who oversee the EC. What do you reckon...?

I think that they would all make excellent members of said party [emoji23]

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This is too funny.

 

 

7 hours ago, baboon said:

These are the people who oversee the EC. What do you reckon...?

 

Four of them look like they're from Tussaud's! That would be OK because the probably never get to say anything!

 

Great to see a group so representative of society! 

6 hours ago, graemeaylward said:

I think that they would all make excellent members of said party

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You are so right, Graemeaylward! I have never come across this word, 'grean', until today (apparently it is a Thai concoction), but look at the characteristics of 'grean' persons. I think you will see that Prayut should be their king and leader:

 

The Characteristics Of Greans- 
*They have high self-confidence, which generates their imagination of correctness. 
*They have low EQ, and they always use their temper to decide what to do, and they're very sensitive. 
*They don't have control over their tempers so they always show what they feel by saying or posting without thinking and manners 
*They like to start problems and raise topics which cause arguments ...

 

Prayut to a 't'!

9 hours ago, rooster59 said:

“Naming a party as ‘Grean Party’, meanwhile, could bring confusion to society

So basically, instead of researching what the ‘Green Party’ represent, people will just act visceraly based on how colours affect their mood or the connotations of the words? 

 

Isn’t there a science into how we feel about different colours? Isn’t green supposed to be calming and peaceful? 

 

I tell you what, if a colour affects a certain person’s morality, I’d question that person’s mental state. They sound like a ticking time bomb. 

 

 

14 minutes ago, rkidlad said:

So basically, instead of researching what the ‘Green Party’ represent, people will just act visceraly based on how colours affect their mood or the connotations of the words? 

Isn’t there a science into how we feel about different colours? Isn’t green supposed to be calming and peaceful? 

I tell you what, if a colour affects a certain person’s morality, I’d question that person’s mental state. They sound like a ticking time bomb. 

I think you have taken the wrong word for your comment. It has nothing to do with color.

The word/name  is GREAN not GREEN and apparently this "non-word" may " disturb people’s order or morality,..."

Hard to believe but TIT.

3 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

I think you have taken the wrong word for your comment. It has nothing to do with color.

The word/name  is GREAN not GREEN and apparently this "non-word" may " disturb people’s order or morality,..."

Hard to believe but TIT.

So it’s not the colour nor even a real word?

Just now, rkidlad said:

So it’s not the colour nor even a real word?

Correct. It is a Thai concoction, possibly pronounced by some Thais as "korean"

3 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

Correct. It is a Thai concoction, possibly pronounced by some Thais as "korean"

I see. Cheers. 

It is pronounced as krian or krean- here's a programme about them- krean is first pronounced at 0.50sec

 

Edited May 5, 20188 yr by bannork

Should have called it Greng Jai party, not only would it get approval it would gain mass popularity

14 hours ago, rooster59 said:

CT is defined to describe aggressive, agitating and unreasonable people,”

This is in the urban dictionary as being non urbane.   So slang is being used in defining parties.  Even if the junta was earnest about carrying out the slanted elections, parties are using odd words in defining themselves. 

On 5/5/2018 at 8:23 AM, baboon said:

These are the people who oversee the EC. What do you reckon...?

They all look like raving monster loonies.

3 minutes ago, Krataiboy said:

They all look like raving monster loonies.

Ha ha - yes! The junta members in that photo of the EC controllers not only look like raving monster loonies - they ARE raving monster loonies!

 

Edited May 6, 20188 yr by Eligius

On 5/5/2018 at 6:52 AM, PatOngo said:

Grean Party verses the Greed Parties.......I wonder who will win that one?

I think that it's obvious who will win that

6 hours ago, Eligius said:

Ha ha - yes! The junta members in that photo of the EC controllers not only look like raving monster loonies - they ARE raving monster loonies!

 

Screaming Lord Sutch RIP was a serious politician

On 5/5/2018 at 7:44 AM, ChiangMaiLightning2143 said:

What is the appropriate Thai pronounciation of
“Grean” ?
 

I read in one of the papers here that it was GRIN party