EC assures international monitors election will be 'clean and fair'

[rooster59]

EC assures international monitors election will be 'clean and fair'

By The Nation

 

 

Thailand's Election Commission on Saturday assured representatives of 11 nations and one international electoral organisation of a clean and fair election on Sunday.

 

The EC briefed representatives of election commissions from Australia, Bhutan, Cambodia, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, East Timor, and Vietnam at the Rama Gardens Hotel at 9.45am. Representatives of the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) also attended the session.

 

EC secretary general Jarungwit Phumma told the representatives that the EC welcomed them to observe the election on Sunday.

 

Jarungwit said the EC allowed the representative to monitor the election to show that the polls would be transparent, clean and fair so that the international community would have confidence in the next government.

EC commissioner Wiroj Kowattana told the representatives that the Thai EC was an independent organisation and it was not under anyone's order to organise the polls.

 

He said the EC was a strong organisation.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30366366

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2019-03-24

[Thailand]

So the 200 plus military appointed senators will be standing down, that would be fair.

 

And good to know that the EC is not under anybody's orders, when did that change?

[bluesofa]

21 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Jarungwit said the EC allowed the representative to monitor the election to show that the polls would be transparent, clean and fair so that the international community would have confidence in the next government.

Are these representatives of 11 nations going to hang around for the weeks it will take before the results are announced, to ensure no counting irregularities further down the line?

[YetAnother]

28 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Thailand's Election Commission on Saturday assured representatives of 11 nations and one international electoral organisation of a clean and fair election on Sunday.

so often in thailand 'fair' has it's own local meaning; part of 'thainess'

[Cadbury]

1 hour ago, rooster59 said:

EC assures international monitors election will be 'clean and fair'

The "cleanliness" and "fairness" has already been bought and paid for in billions of baht of Thai Niyom money that was spread liberally around the country during the vote buying spree disguised as mobile cabinet meetings. 

[Samui Bodoh]

"...EC commissioner Wiroj Kowattana told the representatives that the Thai EC was an independent organisation and it was not under anyone's order to organise the polls. 

He said the EC was a strong organisation..."

 

 

You can't print stuff like that so early in the morning...

 

 

Coffee just came sputtering out my nose due to laughter...

 

 

Let me see...

• 'Prayut is not a State Employee'
• 'The Palang Prachat party fund-raiser was fine'
• Immediate investigations of Pro-Democracy parties
• Delayed investigations of Pro-Junta parties
• "Mobile Cabinet Meetings are 'OK'
• The "Three Amigos" buying up members of other parties for months
• Etc, Etc, Etc...

 

If the EC Commissioners had any shame, they'd never be able to show their faces in public again...

 

 

"...He said the EC was a strong organisation..."

 

 

 

[Lungstib]

The voting, not yet seen, still to come, is the only piece of this election that hasn't been tampered with. All previous anti-democratic actions have been unwatched by any international observers and decided by the biased institutions selected for their compliance.

[Chrisswe]

7 hours ago, Cadbury said:

The "cleanliness" and "fairness" has already been bought and paid for in billions of baht of Thai Niyom money that was spread liberally around the country during the vote buying spree disguised as mobile cabinet meetings. 

Yes wat I can see in the morning they pay 300-500 bht !!!!!!!!!

[mickymouse1]

Poking their dirty NOSE everywhere