Under-fire EC gets moral support from civil-society group

By The Nation

 

 

Students of Prince of Songkhla University join in a campaign to dissolve Election Commission on Monday.

 

With many people having signed up to a petition to dissolve the Election Commission (EC) for its alleged inefficiency in holding the March 24 general election, members of a civil-society group on Monday offered moral support to the embattled agency.

 

The so-called Nueng Sit, Nueng Sieng (One man, one vote) group is led by Somsak Ponchan and people representing voters in Bangkok and Yasothorn.

 

Somsak, who presented a bouquet of flowers to an EC representative as a gesture of support for the commission, said that he and the group wanted to give their backing to EC officials nationwide. 

 

“We are not here to widen conflicts, but just want to provide moral support to the EC. We wish that they [continue their] work for the benefit of the country,” he stressed.

 

“The EC is now under much pressure from the public and the political parties. We want all parties [players] involved in the conflict to give the EC more time. Mistakes can happen,” he added.

 

Somsak also said that he believed that any inefficiency of the part of the EC, and the fact that it was currently operating slowly following the general election, was because its work involved so much detail and it therefore had to be extremely prudent. 

 

Meanwhile, students of Prince of Songkhla University’s Law Faculty on Monday campaigned to solicit signatures from students, lecturers and the public for a petition to dissolve the electoral agency.

 

Their campaign appeared to receive good participation, with many people lining up to sign the petition.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30366925

 

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In order to "continue to work for the benefit of the nation" one must first actually do some work that benefits the nation. As more and more information comes to light it's only going to get worse and worse for the incompetent bunch of clowns that currently identify themselves as the Thai election commission.

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Under-fire EC gets moral support from civil-society group

I wonder if this 'civil-society' group are the ones who torched that activist's car. The people who did that are clearly big fans of the EC and don't like them being criticised. 

2 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Under-fire EC gets moral support from civil-society group

Typical excessively sentimental Thais. Maybe a somtam party with loud, horrible music and cheap, poisonous rice liquor will help. 

 

Idiots 

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

it therefore had to be extremely prudent

And yet the EC admits it made mistakes!

Not just minor mistakes but major mistakes and currently refuses to reveal its formulas for determining the final election counts.

Someone who still gives the EC their moral support must inspect their own morality.

idiotic. with 250 appointed senators and 150 party list MPs decided by secret calculation by the EC, where is the one man, one vote there. Somsak you have lost your mind.

Yet another junta-by-proxy apparatus doing their dirty bidding, all the while the greenies and their masters bolster themselves as the cleanest of the clean saviours of the nation.

 

And here come the anti-higher-institution claims and demands to dissolve FFP again..

 .......it therefore had to be extremely prudent. 

 

Typo. Should read :

 

.....it therefore had to be extremely covert and underhand.

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

“We are not here to widen conflicts, but just want to provide moral support to the EC. We wish that they [continue their] work for the benefit of the country,” he stressed.

 

“The EC is now under much pressure from the public and the political parties. We want all parties [players] involved in the conflict to give the EC more time. Mistakes can happen,” he added.

There it is right there.... the old opt-out-clause!

Mistakes can happen... especially when you've been selected to be in that position & are firmly in the back pocket of those that pay your salary!