Democrat party opposes EC’s party-list seat calculation method

[webfact]

Democrat party opposes EC’s party-list seat calculation method

 

 

The Democrat party has joined two other political parties in voicing their objection to the Election Commission’s formula used in the calculation of party-list seat allocation to parties contesting the March 24th election and vowed to take legal action to seek justice and fairness.

 

Earlier,  Pheu Thai and Future Forward parties opposed the EC’s calculation and threatened to explore all possible legal channels to deal with the EC.

 

Mr. Ramet Rattanachaweng, a member of the party’s executive committee, said that the EC’s method of party-list seat calculation did not reflect the voice of the voters, adding that the Democrat party recognized the Constitutional Court’s ruling, that Article 128 of the MP Election Act does not conflict with Article 91 of the Constitution, and that the statement he made today on behalf of the party had nothing to do with the court’s ruling.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/democrat-party-opposes-ecs-party-list-seat-calculation-method/

 

 

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[Thaiwrath]

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

The Democrat party has joined two other political parties in voicing their objection to the Election Commission’s formula used in the calculation of party-list seat allocation to parties contesting the March 24th election and vowed to take legal action to seek justice and fairness.

 

Unfortunately, they are all

[SABloke]

Well, do the moral thing: You told your supporters you won't join the PTP/FFP coalition, so don't. You also told your supporters you don't support the Junta remaining in charge, so don't join its coalition either. Be independent opposition. Who knows, you might even gain an ounce of DEMOCRATIC credibility.

[Patriot1066]

7 minutes ago, SABloke said:

Well, do the moral thing: You told your supporters you won't join the PTP/FFP coalition, so don't. You also told your supporters you don't support the Junta remaining in charge, so don't join its coalition either. Be independent opposition. Who knows, you might even gain an ounce of DEMOCRATIC credibility.

Very doubtful they will stick to their promises.

 

But we shouldn't criticicize our uk polititions have effectively stoped Brexit with their lack of democratic credibility. However, no doubt they and the EU will start to criticice Thialand even though there is no real democracy in Europe.

[YetAnother]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

vowed to take legal action to seek justice and fairness.

thailand is going to need one heck of a lot more judges if every thai is going to sue given their own self-centered definition of the broad terms of 'justice' and 'fairness'

[jonclark]

The 11 parties which have been given seats in total garnered 490'000 votes. If you examine the ratio of votes to seats to all the other parties, what the EC has done is in effect overvalue the votes for these very minor parties (based on seat allocation)  and undervalued the votes of all the major parties who account for approximately 38 million other votes. 

 

This clearly - whilst not against the constitution, is very much not in the spirit of equality which the constitution has at its very core. Section 4; 'The Thai people shall enjoy equal protection under the constitution'  

[PatOngo]

2 hours ago, SABloke said:

Well, do the moral thing: You told your supporters you won't join the PTP/FFP coalition, so don't. You also told your supporters you don't support the Junta remaining in charge, so don't join its coalition either. Be independent opposition. Who knows, you might even gain an ounce of DEMOCRATIC credibility.

They don't follow morals here, they follow money. They will follow whoever has control of the trough.