EC denies ‘red card’ election claims

 

 

The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday denied messages widely shared on social media platforms which claimed the agency will give “red cards” to some political parties for committing irregularities in the March 24 general election.

 

The messages were posted on Facebook by “Nitiphumthanat Ming-rujiralai” and on Twitter by “Nitipoom Navaratana”. The accounts have different names but the photos show Nitipoom Navaratana, deputy leader of the Prachachart Party.

 

The message claimed the EC is preparing to give 28 red cards to the anti-junta Pheu Thai party, 15 to Future Forward and two to pro-junta Palang Pracharat. It said the by-elections would be on April 21. 

 

Nitipoom meanwhile told reporters that he had nothing to do with the false messages, claiming he believed it was the work of one of his close aides. He claimed he had not used either account for a long time and had forgotten the passwords. 

 

The EC asked the public not to share the messages, saying they could face prosecution. The body said there were at least 186 cases of electoral irregularities that were still under investigation.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30366717

 

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So what action is being taken against the 'close aid'?

Just now, DNPBC0 said:

So what action is being taken against the 'close aid'?

Closely monitored and transferred to an inactive post, what else?

23 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The message claimed the EC is preparing to give 28 red cards to the anti-junta Pheu Thai party, 15 to Future Forward and two to pro-junta Palang Pracharat. It said the by-elections would be on April 21.

Who was it that predicted and posted that they would issue a load red cards to the anti-junta party and a couple to the junta one to make it look fair? 

Good.

Such blatant cheating is the best thing for Thailand.

At last, the beginning of the end has arrived.

On 3/28/2019 at 6:14 AM, snoop1130 said:

The Election Commission (EC) on Thursday denied messages widely shared on social media platforms which claimed the agency will give “red cards” to some political parties for committing irregularities in the March 24 general election.

This was only to be used if the election couldn't be stolen in another way. Now the plan is to "let sleeping dogs lie" and hope all of the conversation about corruption in the electoral process passes quickly so they can get on with sacking the country.