Election Commission clarifies about fund-raising activities and political donations

[rooster59]

Election Commission clarifies about fund-raising activities and political donations

 

 

Political parties can hold fund-raising events until the Royal Decree on the election of members of the parliament comes into effect after which such activities are banned, but political donations can be received all the time, according to Election Commission’s deputy secretary-general Sawaeng Boonmee.

 

He was responding to questions related to a fund-raising banquet organized by Palang Pracharat party’s fund-raising event on Wednesday during a meeting Friday between election officials and representatives of 13 newly-established political parties.

 

Critics and rival politicians have contended that the Palang Pracharat’s fund raising might go against the election-related laws, citing that some of the donors which bought dinner tables priced at three million baht were governmental agencies.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/election-commission-clarifies-about-fund-raising-activities-and-political-donations/

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-12-23

[Cadbury]

Nice photo of Junta snobs and toadies gourmandising on food that the poor will never get to see or taste in their lives. That little flunky on the right is a minister in the PM's Office; just checking to make sure every thing goes according to the Junta's election road map. 

[Oziex1]

So many cases of the entitled bending the rules only to have their actions validated with a clarification by their sycophants.

[Lupatria]

4 hours ago, Cadbury said:

That little flunky on the right is a minister in the PM's Office;

Is he the recently hired junta rapper?

[Srikcir]

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

some of the donors which bought dinner tables priced at three million baht were governmental agencies.

The junta using Thai taxpayer funds to finance pro-military, anti-polity political party campaigns.

Amazing Thailand - the best an authoritarian hybrid regime (as per the 2017 Democracy Index) can offer in place of democracy. https://infographics.economist.com/2018/DemocracyIndex/

[Cadbury]

6 hours ago, Lupatria said:

Is he the recently hired junta rapper?

His face looked familiar. I thought I recognised him from somewhere before. I think his name is Alfred Somchai Neuman.