Thailand's election results to emerge slowly, could take weeks

[snoop1130]

Thailand's election results to emerge slowly, could take weeks

 

Electoral staff members show a ballot during vote counting at the general election in Mae Hong Son, Thailand, March 24, 2019. REUTERS/Ann Wang

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai election officials said they would announce the winners of 350 parliamentary seats on Monday and more details of those contests would come on Friday, but a clear picture of the lower house's 500 seats could take weeks to emerge.

 

A drawn-out process could complicate coalition-building to form a government, five years after a military coup.

 

A pro-army party is seeking a democratic mandate for junta leader Prayuth Chan-ocha to keep the premiership.

 

Already on Monday anti-junta parties claimed that there had been irregularities in Sunday's election after partial results showed that the pro-army party was leading the popular vote.

 

The Election Commission said it would name the winners of 350 constituency seats of the 500-seat lower house of parliament, the House of Representatives, on Monday.

 

A voter breakdown of those constituency contests would not be available until Friday.

 

"Today we will only see the names of the winners in 350 constituencies," Jarungwit Pumma, secretary-general of the Election Commission, told a news conference. "Numbers are still moving. We can't publish them now. Please wait a couple of days."

 

A further 150 seats that will be allocated on the basis of a complex formula involving voter turnout won't be announced until May 9. However, if there is enough detail in Friday's numbers it might be possible to extrapolate the winners of the 150.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-03-25

[bowerboy]

This is utterly pathetic even by the already utterly pathetic Thai standard.

 

Read those words and think in what possible way can they be anything other than complete lies that they know only these brain dead Thais that they have created would believe.

 

Why in gods name can they not calculate the end result know. Exactly how is it that no other country in the world hasn’t this issue about counting and calculating results.

[4MyEgo]

Either way you look at it, the Junta wins with its rewriting of the constitution, a "military constitution" which is in for 20 years, regardless if Prayut is Prime Minister or not, the military is guaranteed 250 seats at every election, if the Junta is not happy how the Prime Minister is going about his/her business, regardless if all parties amalgamate to rule, if the Junta wants, it will throw another coup, ousting the government.

 

I hope the world unite in telling Thailand that having 250 seats automatically guaranteed to the military out of the 750 seats, is NOT a democracy and start putting sanctions on Thailand to get rid of it's rewritten "military" constitution and it becomes a true democracy without military dictatorship, as it stands now !

[Fex Bluse]

7 minutes ago, bowerboy said:

This is utterly pathetic even by the already utterly pathetic Thai standard.

 

Read those words and think in what possible way can they be anything other than complete lies that they know only these brain dead Thais that they have created would believe.

 

Why in gods name can they not calculate the end result know. Exactly how is it that no other country in the world hasn’t this issue about counting and calculating results.

"Thailand special. Not same same you country na kha." ????

[cornishcarlos]

43 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Numbers are still moving

 

How's that then ? People still voting !! Thought it had finished ????????

[CGW]

after over 30 years here I should be used to the idiocy that Thai politics is, yet they still continue to surpass themselves & amaze me, amazing Thailand indeed! ????

[Justin Side]

Weeks to announce the junta as the winner?

Why wait?

Do it now.

Actually they could have done it last week.

[kotsak]

Thailand 4.0?

[KMartinHandyman]

Ny times has an editorial 25 May on the subject that’s pretty interesting.

[Hayduke]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand's election results to emerge slowly, could take weeks

 

Well….that’s understandable. Millions of ‘incorrect’ ballots need to be destroyed and replaced with ‘correct’ ballots. You can’t do all of this overnight.

 

[boonrawdcnx]

Yes could take weeks - to fix the numbers as they want them!

For the 5.8 billion they could have hired a team of foreigners including observes running a proper election for them!


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[neeray]

12 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

Either way you look at it, the Junta wins with its rewriting of the constitution, a "military constitution" which is in for 20 years, regardless if Prayut is Prime Minister or not, the military is guaranteed 250 seats at every election, if the Junta is not happy how the Prime Minister is going about his/her business, regardless if all parties amalgamate to rule, if the Junta wants, it will throw another coup, ousting the government.

 

I hope the world unite in telling Thailand that having 250 seats automatically guaranteed to the military out of the 750 seats, is NOT a democracy and start putting sanctions on Thailand to get rid of it's rewritten "military" constitution and it becomes a true democracy without military dictatorship, as it stands now !

Post of this thread !

 

[harada]

Burma revisited.